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“You don’t know how that data is being used,” Tien said. “You think that you are not affected, but you have no idea whether you’re being affected. As we found after the Patriot Act, with more discrete and insular communities like Muslims in the United States, there’s a whole lot of secret lists that were floating around, suspicion was being placed on people, which had effects on them, but they didn’t know about it.” (Earlier this year, the Associated Press reported that in some cases, the NYPD used LPRs to routinely scan all the plates parked within the vicinity of mosques as part of terror-related investigations.)”
Your car, tracked: the rapid rise of license plate readers | Ars Technica
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