Mass surveillance in the USA: Police cameras scan millions of license plates

There is hardly an issue in the USA on which the political camps do not attack each other. It's all the more astonishing where they meet: on a pole on the side of the road. A black box, barely larger than a coffee cup, hangs there, with a solar panel above it. Anyone who drives by is photographed: license plate, brand, color. Even stickers and dents are recorded. Everything ends up in a database that the police can search, nationwide and in real time. ... (rest of article)