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As far as I can tell from the article, EFF is asking for transparency into how ALPR records are used in the LA law enforcement. The only policy response even mentioned - and it's not even explicitly called for - is for the legislature to set retention limits. Both of those strike me as eminently reasonable requests, and neither of which claims a general "freedom not to have your license plate OCR'd."

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I don't agree with retention limits.

Data is awesome. Tt is history and science. In 50 or 5000 years anthropologists will be salvilating over having the data we record today.

Maybe in 5 years hobbyist, startup or evil corporation will come up with novel use that beneficial.

The problem is not in the data or in the technology. It is with how it is used. It should be available to everyone free of restriction.

Victims of domestic violence, to name the most obvious example, probably feel differently about making their location indexed and searchable for anyone to look up without restriction.

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