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Posted on 02/10/2026 4:25:02 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
More than two dozen privacy and advocacy organizations are calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to remove a network of covert license plate readers deployed across Southern California that the groups believe feed data into a controversial U.S. Border Patrol predictive domestic intelligence program that scans the country’s roadways for suspicious travel patterns.
“We ask that your administration investigate and release the relevant permits, revoke them, and initiate the removal of these devices,” read the letter sent Tuesday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Imperial Valley Equity and Justice and other nonprofits.
An Associated Press investigation published in November revealed that the U.S. Border Patrol, an agency under U.S. Customs and Border Protection, had hidden license plate readers in ordinary traffic safety equipment. The data collected by the Border Patrol plate readers was then fed into a predictive intelligence program monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
AP obtained land use permits from Arizona showing that the Border Patrol went to great lengths to conceal its surveillance equipment in that state, camouflaging it by placing it inside orange and yellow construction barrels dotting highways.
The letter said the groups’ researchers have identified a similar network of devices in California, finding about 40 license plate readers in San Diego and Imperial counties, both of which border Mexico. More than two dozen of the plate readers identified by the groups were hidden in construction barrels.
They could not determine of the ownership of every device, but the groups said in the letter that they obtained some permits from the California Department of Transportation, showing both the Border Patrol and Drug Enforcement Administration had applied for permission to place readers along state highways. DEA shares its license plate reader data with Border...
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If you want privacy, stay home.
I accidentally agree with the leftists.
The government ought not sweep up every bit of data that is possible. I think they should need probable cause and warrants.
I don’t want the government to know of every time I’m on the road, where I’m going and where I’ve been. None of their business until they have a reasonable suspicion I committed a crime for which a judge will approve a warrant.
I don’t mind that the system exists. Accessing its data should require a specific warrant.
“Privacy activists call on California to remove covert license plate readers”
if they do that, how will the local LEOs track ICE agents?
The case law is pretty clear on the lack of privacy in public spaces.
CC
California is getting too intrusive into the peoples' lives. Unless you're an illegal alien.
Latest thing being discussed is a tax-by-mile for vehicles. Devices will be placed in vehicles to track your drives, send the data to government, and you'll be billed for the mileage you rack up. Try to disable the device, and you will be imprisoned. Privacy is being lost and we're being monitored (unless you're an illegal alien).
Driving is a priveledge, not a right.
IN ANYWHERE BUT CALIFORNIA
Moving from place to place without using public land is impossible. Leaving your own land is a privilege?
You don’t have to drive to move...
Someone will claim the system monitors and tracks pedophiles and other globohomo perverts and the system will be taken down.
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