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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 greatest threat that comes from a mass surveillance ALPR system is not when it is misused, but when it is used as designed. 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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Official ACLU Senate testimony, Sept. 23, 2026, pp. 7–9, attributes these exact passages to Chad Marlow; Senate Judiciary lists him as the ACLU witness.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 36min ago
replying to Chad Marlow