What are police departments doing with all that data? In Northern California, law enforcement agencies are using license plate readers to build a giant database of publicly available personal information--all obtained legally, without warrants. In 2011 the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, which coordinates information-sharing between law enforcement agencies, signed a contract with Silicon Valley-based defense contractor Palantir to create a database capable of storing 100 milli...
What are police departments doing with all that data? In Northern California, law enforcement agencies are using license plate readers to build a giant database of publicly available personal information--all obtained legally, without warrants. In 2011 the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, which coordinates information-sharing between law enforcement agencies, signed a contract with Silicon Valley-based defense contractor Palantir to create a database capable of storing 100 milli...
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