In fact, until very recently, most Americans were not even aware this was happening. There's been an explosion in surveillance in one specific area, which is misleadingly named automatic license plate readers. So the idea is that A camera, either affixed to a pole or bolted the side of a building, or increasingly in a drone, takes pictures of a license plate and runs that information back to police headquarters, presumably, or corporate headquarters. And that information can be used to track down the fabled. Fabled child traffickers. Everyone in charge is so upset about child traffickers. (06:36–06:52)
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Describes the operation of automatic license plate readers and their data transmission to authorities.
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