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Tucker Carlson: “There's no law that says [license plate readers] have to…”

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Whistleblower Reveals the Largest Mass Surveillance Operation in History and the Coming Slave State

Published July 15, 2026 | Video Starts at 07:28

But just your license plate. Well, it's become clear in recent months that these license plate readers are doing a lot more than reading license plates. In fact, There's no law that says [license plate readers] have to constrict their spying to people's license plates. They can spy on people and cars, and they could do facial recognition, and they can listen to what you say. And indeed they are. (07:28–07:33)

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Asserts that there is no legal restriction on the scope of surveillance by license plate readers.

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“A law passed recently by the United States Congress mandates cameras in all new passenger vehicles.”
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“Harris County, Texas, had over 500 murders in 2025.”
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“There is almost, if you live in a metropolitan area in the United States, no place you can go from your bedroom to the grocery store to the…”
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“There's really no legal safeguard in place to let us know or to protect us from the misuse of that information [captured by surveillance…”
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“There's been an explosion in surveillance in one specific area, which is misleadingly named automatic license plate readers.”
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“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…”
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“Flock Safety is funded by state and local governments using tax dollars.”
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“Flock Safety uses tax dollars to know everything about you.”
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“The total murders in Harris County, Texas, has risen dramatically over the past 10 years.”
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“We increase the surveillance past what 1984 describes, and we still have 500 murders in one US county.”
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“If you turn a city into a panopticon, you still have, well, in the case of Harris County, Texas, hundreds of people getting murdered.”
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“Congress has made no effort to ban it or even regulate it to protect, say, images of you or your conversation.”
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“There's no law preventing other people from stealing your conversations and your image in the most intimate moments of your life.”
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“There are dozens, maybe hundreds of similar videos of people destroying license plate readers.”
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“They think the Constitution guarantees [privacy] to them. Their lawmakers don't care. Their leaders don't care. Their police departments…”
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“Flock Safety is not contesting the factual accuracy of the information disseminated by Def Lock.”
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“Def Lock is a group on the Internet that tells you where the Flock cameras are.”
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“Def Lock thinks Flock cameras are a violation of the Fourth Amendment.”
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“It's overwhelmingly likely that you have [Flock cameras] in your neighborhood, that you're being watched.”
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“The people supposed to be protecting you, like the mayor or the chief of your police department, don't care about your privacy.”
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“Pretty soon it won't matter because they're going to be in drones.”
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“Crime stats are complicated. Cross referencing them with what we know about these cameras and where they are, it didn't seem like they…”
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“If surveillance created safety, then prisons would be very safe, but they're very dangerous.”
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“There was no Democratic input that you're aware of?”
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“He's getting rich from this, from tax dollars, by the way.”
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“Why would our government be using [drones]... We're not enemy combatants. We're Americans. Why would they be treating us like we're the…”
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“It's very easy to see how military technology, and this is military technologies, these are weapons of war, could be used as tools of…”
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“And then drones are deployed to make certain that the sheep are being herded correctly.”
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“Are there any laws governing what Flock or [other surveillance companies] can do with the data?”
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“Pawtucket, as you just said, is like kind of famous, is nice town. But there's some definitely very rough parts of it.”
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“Are they now totally safe with these cameras?”
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“It's sweeping up everybody into this dragnet. It seems like by definition unconstitutional.”
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“Is it possible that members of the city council or law enforcement officials are making money on this?”
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