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Car License Plate Scanning Has Public-Private Partnership Seeing Profits

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1927 California license plate. photo: Wikimedia Commons

The units work by sounding an in-car alert if the scanner comes across a license plate of interest to police, whereas before, patrol officers generally needed some reason to take an interest in the vehicle, like a traffic [...]

Iowa Legislation Attempts to Blockade First Amendment Rights in Favor of Large Agribusiness: Traditional Farmers Ask "What Are They Hiding?"

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Iowa is ground zero for undercover investigations of livestock facilities by animal rights activists. It is also the first of four states to try to ban them. One former investigator goes public for the first time to offer a rare glimpse at how these videos are made, and what's at stake for farmers, animals and consumers.