“‘License plate readers are the most pervasive method of location tracking that nobody has heard of,’ said Catherine Crump, ACLU lawyer and lead author of the report. ‘They collect data on millions of Americans, the overwhelming number of whom are entirely innocent of any wrongdoing.’ Crump said that the creeping growth of licence plate scanners echoed the debate over the National Security Agency. ‘It raises the same question as the NSA controversy: do we want to live in a world where the government makes a record of everything we do – because that’s what’s being created by the growth of databases linked to license plate readers.'”
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