An AI camera error put a baby at gunpoint. Warrantless surveillance has gone too far

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Automated license plate readers — high-speed cameras that capture the license plate information of each passing vehicle — are making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

In Arkansas, recently released body camera footage shows a young couple with a small baby in the car being detained at gunpoint after an ALPR mistakenly flagged their vehicle as stolen. 

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