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License plate readers are hardly mass surveillance.

Why is no one in democratic countries complaining about mass surveillance?

And I mean real cameras (not license plate readers) recording 24/7?

I'm talking about UK, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, etc.

unlike most Asian countries, individual freedom is the foundation on which American society has been built; it's why many people migrated to the US over the past 250 years

LPRs are absolutely mass surveillance when used without proper legal restraints

the legal restraints are the big difference between regular police, who operate without very specific boundaries to protect individual rights -- and ICE, who can do whatever they want with impunity. That's what separates "police" from "Gestapo".

Because we in america tend to value individual liberties in a way that others don't. And yes of course LPR is mass surveillance. Cars should not even have to be registered.

They shouldn't even have license plates?? That leads to 0 accountibility.

Would you like the government driving around in government vehicles doing hit and runs and having zero accountability?

Or criminals for that matter?

We don't need it. You could say the same about any criminal act, doesn't mean we need to tag everyone with a face id.

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