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pnw | 3 months ago

None of this is new. The article states that CBP got authorization to track license plates in 2017 and concerns about law enforcement use of ALPR date back to at least 2010. The ACLU sued the LAPD in 2013 on ALPR.

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root_axis|3 months ago

The part that's new is people being detained for "suspicious" traffic patterns.

jasonfarnon|3 months ago

Is it? or is the new part that it's being reported? This "news" just looks like an investigation AP conducted on its own. Could they have conducted it years ago, and what would they have found then?

dragonwriter|3 months ago

The particular manner in which it is being used can be different even if the fact that is being used by CBP is not.

ActorNightly|3 months ago

>CBP got authorization to track license plates in 2017

who was president in 2017?

spicyusername|3 months ago

I mean, the last 20 years is only ~8% of the history of the U.S., so all things considered those changes are pretty "new".

pnw|3 months ago

Sure, but the OP was specifically referring to party politics and this is a bipartisan issue.