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hulitu 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those w...

> It's not just government use either. There are private companies that scan vast numbers of license plates

Welcome to capitalism. It is very hard, in EU and US, to tell where the government ends and the private companies begin.

thewebguyd 8 months ago [–]

especially when private companies can buy politicians. At this point there is no line and the two have become one.

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