City Wants Surveillance Cameras to Record Every License Plate

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Police in North Carolina want to build surveillance cameras that would record every car license that passes by and run it through the FBI’s criminal database, alerting authorities in real time if it finds a match. The system would store license plate numbers for up to a year to provide authorities with historic data should they want to review the data later. “There is no expectation of privacy to a license plate number,” said John Carey, the police chief in Wilmington, North Carolina, since a license plate is a displayed public record.