You local police department may be tracking your every move. A new report from the ACLU shows that automatic license plate readers are snapping photos of our cars, even when we're not speeding or running a red light. And, those photos are being stored in mega databases just like our phone and internet data, which is being captured by the NSA. According to the ACLU, cameras mounted on police cars, bridges, traffic lights, and other objects record the plate number, time, and location for every passing car.

At first, law enforcement agencies only used that information to check for stolen cars, or to act on arrest warrants, but now many police forces are storing those images indefinitely. This information could potentially be used to document where you drive, who you associate with, or even how long you were there. Law enforcement is no longer keeping this information only on those found guilty of a crime, they're storing data on everyone to prove criminal activity at some later date. That's the reason the ACLU is exposing this surveillance program. They say the government shouldn't be watching our every move, just in case we commit a crime later.

As is the case with the NSA surveillance programs, government officials contend that this supposedly-modest invasion of our privacy is necessary to find criminals and keep us safe. However, the ACLU and various privacy advocates do not agree. They say that there is no justifiable reason for the federal government to monitor our phone and internet activity, and no reason our every move should be photographed and stored by local governments.

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Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: C'mon...a legal liberal lynching?
- Bill Frady, Lock and Load Radio Show

Article: "What You May Not Know About the Zimmerman Verdict: The Evolution of a Jury Instruction" by Alafair Burke.

Article: "Stand Your Ground and the Zimmerman Verdict" by Dan Gelber.

Article: "A Transcript of the George Zimmerman Police Call".

Article: "Castle Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Utah lawmaker Aaron Osmond wants to abolish state funded public education" by Reno Berkeley.

Article: "Zimmerman accused of domestic violence, fighting with a police officer" by MSNBC.

Picture: "Gun toting, veggie-eating, liberal mama!".

Video: "Zimmerman Seen in Police Station Surveillance" by ABC News.

Hour Two: Who created the intelligent designer?
- Steve Meyer, Ph.D, Darwin's Doubt

Book: "Darwin's Doubt. The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design" by Stephen C. Meyer.

Book: "Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design" by Stephen C. Meyer.

Article: "Embryonic lethality".

Article: "Discovery Institute" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin.

Article: "Allegory of the Cave" by Plato.

Article: "Embryonic lethality" by Epigenesys.

Article: "Zimmerman Wound Photos from Night of Shooting" by J. Blake.

Article: "North Carolina Lawmakers Ram Through Plan That Would Increase Taxes On Poor People" by Igor Volsky.

Article: "White people who kill black people in 'Stand Your Ground' states are 354% more likely to be cleared of murder" by Jill Reilly.

Article: "NRA Responds to Eric Holder's Watered Down View of Self-Defense" by Katie Pavlich.

Article: "Liz Cheney to stand for US Senate" by Reuters.

Article: "5th Amendment".

Article: "Claim: Water that has been boiled in a microwave oven (then cooled) is harmful to plants." by Snopes.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "TRNS News Notes- Wednesday, July 17" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- Thursday, July 18" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "House Votes To Delay Obamacare Individual Mandate" by AP/The Huffington Post.

Article: "Obama to tout health care rebates" by Aamer Madhani.

Article: "Surveillance Programs Come Under Greater Scrutiny" by TRNS.

Article: "'You are being tracked': ACLU reveals docs of mass license plate reader surveillance" by RT.

Article: "Samantha Power Clears Senate Hearing On UN Appointment" by Luke Vargas.

Article: "Senators Unveil Revised Media Shield Bill" by TRNS.

Article: "UN Security Council holds open debate on protecting journalists in conflict zones" by Alastair Reid.

Article: "Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 7/17/2013".

Video: "Sen. Warren on CNBC's "Squawk Box" ".

Article: "Wedge strategy" by Wikipedia.

The good: "NY Daily News' Powerful Trayvon Martin Front Page (PHOTO)" by Jack Mirkinson.

The bad: "Reuters Exposed: Publication Openly Hostile To Climate Coverage, Top Editor Doubts Climate Science" by Kiley Kroh.

The very, very ugly: Michael Cutler: "Fox Guest Decries Immigration Reform: Naturalized Immigrants Can't Be Exploited " by Brian Thorn.

Article: "'New Day; transcript, July 15, 2013 " by CNN (CNN's Chris Cuomo: "... stand your ground. We all talk about it. It did not play a role in this jury's verdict.").

Article: "Why Were Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman Held to Two Different Standards of Justice?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Stand Your Ground And The Zimmerman Defense" by Matt Gertz.

Video: "George Zimmerman Trial: Mark O'Mara Delivers Defense Closing Arguments 7/12/2013".

Case: "Schmerber v. California - 384 U.S. 757 (1966)".

Article: "Retreat To The Wall" by Encyclopedia of Law Project.

Article: "ABC News Exclusive: Zimmerman Medical Report Shows Broken Nose, Lacerations After Trayvon Martin Shooting" by Matt Gutman and Seni Tienabeso (Zimmerman prescribed Adderall and Temazepam).

Article: "Dream Defenders Flood Rick Scott's Office, Demand Florida Stand Your Ground Law Repeal (PHOTOS)" by Chris Gentilviso.

Article: "NSA Sued By Unusual Coalition Of Gun Rights And Environmental Activists Over 'Dragnet Surveillance'" by Ben Hallman.

Article: "Stevie Wonder boycotts Florida following George Zimmerman verdict" by Randee Dawn.

Article: "No more pizza! Hospital's hilarious plea after ward was inundated with more than 20 pies when cancer sufferer, 2, and her family taped a request for the treat on her window" by Daily Mail.

Hour Two: Stalking the Koch Brothers' $$
- Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio

Geeky Science- did you know we're all wearing dead stars?

Hour Three: Sen. Sherrod Brown on Too Big To Fail
- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

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