The DEA is license plate reader cameras to capture information on an enormous number of motorists, with some 793.5 million license plates stored in a database built for and with federal and local authorities. 
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DEA paid out $854,460 for free Amtrak passenger data
Since 1995, a former Amtrak employee has been selling passenger data to the US Drug Enforcement Administration – information that cost the DEA $854,460, but which it could have gotten for free.