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1 week agoCivil liberties groups sue San Jose over warrantless access to license plate reader data
A coalition of high-profile civil-liberties groups led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and ACLU are suing San Jose over what it characterizes as millions of warrantless searches of automated license plate reader data, which it says has put the city in an unprecedented state of surveillance with no meaningful gatekeeping. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, claims that local authorities as well as outside law enforcement are violating the California Constitution by continuously combing, without a search warrant, the hundreds of millions
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