Comment by Chad Marlow

“The second cause of the spike in ALPR use is the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). [...] But with the advent of AI, going through such data and using it to identify drivers’ intimate patterns of life has become light work. [...] And because these ALPR products are most commonly sold to local police departments one at a time, funded by our taxpayer dollars, a nationwide mass surveillance ALPR network crept up on us slowly and silently until it finally became too big to not notice. [...] The time has come for Congress to ban any law enforcement entity who receives federal funding from using ALPRs. [...] It’s time for Congress to use its power of the purse to prohibit the government use of ALPRs in America.”