Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Published4 h ago (Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:26:17 GMT)
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AuthorJason Koebler