THE DAILY CALLER – The American Civil Liberties Union condemned police departments’ use of license plate scanners to track every movement of every vehicle in a report released Wednesday.
The report “found that not only are license plate scanners widely deployed, but few police departments place any substantial restrictions on how they can be used,” according to an ACLU press release.
Automatic license plate readers are scanners placed on road signs and bridges or in patrol cars that capture every license plate that passes them. The software then assigns time and location stamps the pictures and reads the license plate numbers to see if they match up with stolen vehicles and other crimes.
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