Tucker Carlson: “There's been an explosion in surveillance in one specific…”

“Did your local lawmaker ask you, would you like to be spied on 24 hours a day? No, of course, no one asked. 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.” (06:26–06:35)

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