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Cities Forced to Feed License Plate Data Into Federal Surveillance Database
Original: How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
Municipalities across the United States are being compelled to share license plate reader data with a federal database, according to reporting by 404 Media. The scheme operates through an anti-drug trafficking program, which the federal government has used to quietly assemble a massive repository of plate data. Critics say the arrangement amounts to a sweeping domestic surveillance network built without meaningful public consent or oversight.
Why now: New reporting has exposed how an anti-drug program is being used to build a federal license plate surveillance database, raising privacy concerns.
404 MediaUS federal governmentUS cities
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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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