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Former cop in the US here. My department never had access to some things people are claiming are available, but we did have license plate scanners. The scanners would read the license plate of every car that passed, and then compare it to DMV records. If anything popped up as having a violation, e.g., expires, suspended, stolen, etc., then the cop would have to run the plate himself and verify it before taking any action. It did automatically what a police officer would do manually, and just ran the plate against DMV records (a record that is publicly available and which police officers have the right to search at any time for any reason, at least in my state). There are concerns that the software was recording all plates that were ran, but I was always confused about this, as the search system used even without the plate scanner software recorded when the plate was run and by whom. The information regarding the plate was, and is, publicly available, and it was within the police officer’s authority to search for that information. That being said, some of the sketchier things, such as recording where someone has been at all times, becomes somewhat more complex. As far as the facial recognition software is concerned, that would be infinitely more complex in America considering how highly privacy is protected. I could see it being constitutional in some twisted way, but I don’t know if everyone would be comfortable with it. Edit: I r gud wit wurds