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Cities Pressured to Feed License Plate Data into Federal Surveillance Program
Original: How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
Reporting by 404 Media details how the federal government has built a large database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program, with cities effectively compelled to funnel local plate data into it. The piece raises concerns about the scale of surveillance and the lack of local control over how residents' movements are tracked and stored by federal authorities.
Why now: Growing public concern over mass surveillance and federal access to local license plate reader data.
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- How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program · 404 Media
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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