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Comment by Chad Marlow
Senior Policy Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, focused on privacy, surveillance, and technology issues.
The second cause of the spike in ALPR use is the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). [...] The AI-empowered mass surveillance of every single American isn’t an ALPR product defect – it is its most prominent and intended feature. [...] The time has come for Congress to ban any law enforcement entity who receives federal funding from using ALPRs. And this prohibition should be without exceptions.AI Verified (Sep 23, 2026)
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The supplied Senate-testimony source text and corroborating reporting attribute the stored ALPR wording to Chad Marlow.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 20d ago
replying to Chad Marlow