LAPD Spies on Millions of Innocent Folks

LAPD and the Los Angeles County Sheriff are monitoring the whereabouts of residents whether they have committed a crime or not. The biggest surveillance net is license plate reading technology that records your car’s plate number as you pass police cruisers equipped with a rooftop camera, or as you drive past street locations where such cameras are mounted. z_lapd_surveillance001
Information on the identity and movements of millions of Southern California residents is being collected and tracked.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California are suing LAPD and the Sheriff’s Department, demanding to see a sample week’s worth of that data in order to get some idea of what cops are storing in a vast and growing, regionally shared database.

Two dozen police agencies have gathered more than 160 million data points showing the exact whereabouts of L.A.-area drivers.

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