ACLU demand CA cops stop sharing location data with cops in anti-abortion states

Automated license plate readers, in this case. Or the legality of police purchase of private ALPR data, to hurt the economic incentive of private surveillance. Or the ease with which individuals and license plates are linked in the first place - remember, while we're quick to give up and say we can't do anything about private ALPRs, they're just gathering publicly available data, license plates themselves are government-mandated. I'm sure there are ways to improve their privacy, while still permitting identification for hit&runs. Like gratis switching of plates, and closely guarded access to the license plate database, akin to library records.

There are many possibilities. Carving out narrow exceptions for a handful of uses favored by the ACLU, thereby stealing momentum from any larger anti-surveillance movements, is possibly the worst of them.