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Imagine you’ve just driven to the supermarket, passing dozens of streetlights on the way, perhaps passing under a bridge or by a tow truck in the next lane. You leave your car in the parking lot. How many times during this short trip has your license plate been photographed and entered into a database, along with your GPS coordinates? For millions of unsuspecting Americans, the answer could be that the police or a private company has tracked their travel patterns, now in the full knowledge where they are and where they have been.
Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are devices that use a camera to automatically photograph any license plates they “see,” collecting the information in a database. As The Wall Street Journal recently described, the vast network of ALPRs across America “makes it nearly impossible to drive anywhere in the U.S. without being observed.”
ALPRs are placed near roads, with locations including streetlights, telephone poles, bridges, overpasses, toll plazas, and parking lots. As well as fixed points, the devices are also mounted on police patrol cars, tow trucks, garbage trucks, mobile trailers, and so on. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a leading digital rights group, patrol car-mounted ALPRs allow “police to ‘grid’ neighborhoods—driving up and down every block in order to gather information on parked vehicles. This data is uploaded along with GPS and time-date information to a searchable database.”
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When I left my cushy corporate job in 2017, I did so knowing that my family would have to make sacrifices. But I couldn’t continue to watch the nation slip into oblivion and was inspired by President Trump’s willingness to fight the good fight even at his own personal expense. What I didn’t realize then is that conservative media would be so heavily attacked, canceled, and defunded that the sacrifices would be extreme.
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