Following an audit of four California police agencies' use of automated license plate readers, California Sen. Scott Weiner, D-San Francisco, said the “state of affairs is totally unacceptable,” TechCrunch reports. The audit found Los Angeles stores 320 million license plate images, which are shared with “hundreds” of agencies that are lacking privacy policies. Weiner said many agencies “are violating state law, are retaining personal data for lengthy periods of time, and are disseminating this personal data broadly.”
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