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17, 2012  Episode Teaser Image  Episode Description  The
American Civil Liberties Union is filing information requests
with nearly 500 police departments in 38 states having to do
with License Plate Reader cameras, or LPRs. Apparently, tens of
thousands of them are being used around the country. The cameras
help police spot cars that may be wanted, but according to the
ACLU, the problem lies in the fact that the cameras store
people's license plate numbers for a long time, and there's not
that much known about how the technology is actually being
deployed.  Why are police scanning millions of license plates?
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