Police are recording and storing information on millions of thousands of license plates that aren't related to any known activity of interest to law enforcement, according to data collected by the American Civil Libertines Union as a result of Freedom of Information requests in 38 states.
The license-plate scanners, fastened to the rear fenders or trunk of some police cars as well as on signs. bridges and other objects, are, "in effect, government location tracking systems recording the movements of many millions of innocent Americans in huge databases," said ACLU Staff Attorney Catherine Crump, the report's lead author.
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