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Re:Judge orders police to stop collecting data from license ... by tantalor on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @10:22AM (#19563541)
The concern is innocent people could get implicated by a search, such as "all licence plates in location X at time T1 and location Y at time T2".
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Re:Judge orders police to stop collecting data from license ... by sixothree on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:01AM (#19563858)
Or "where is my girlfriend right now?".
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Re:Judge orders police to stop collecting data from license ... by noir_lord on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @02:26PM (#19565887)
Or where is <plateX> that someone just gave me $5000 to look up.

By definition police deal with criminals and not all those criminals are stealing $200 from a cash register.

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