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Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring

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Speaker 1: legal issues in the news and Today, Bloomberg Law host

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Speaker 1: Greg Store discusses whether or not police departments can collect

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Speaker 1: and store vast amounts of data collected from license plate readers.

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Speaker 1: He speaks with Jonathan Adler, professor at Case Western University

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Speaker 1: School of Law, and Catherine Crump, a professor at Berkeley

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Speaker 1: Law School. Let's start just with the policy issues before

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Speaker 1: we get into the legal issues involving this case. Why

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Speaker 1: should I if I'm somebody who drives a lot but

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Speaker 1: has not been involved with a crime, why should I

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Speaker 1: care about whether police are keeping photos of my license plate?

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Speaker 1: We should care because where you go can reveal a

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Speaker 1: great deal about you. Um, we're not talking about the police,

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Speaker 1: you know, incidentally seeing your license plate as you drive by.

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Speaker 1: No one thinks that's the problem, and no one's even

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Speaker 1: objecting because the police using license plate readers to automatically

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Speaker 1: look at license plates and check the person who's driving

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Speaker 1: the car may have been wanted for a crime. What

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Speaker 1: we're talking about is should the police be attaining vast

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Speaker 1: databases store and license plate readers for months or even years,

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Speaker 1: information that as I said, can be revealing of where

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Speaker 1: people go, and the vast majority of which pertained absolutely

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Speaker 1: innocent people. Jonathan, let me ask you to give the

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Speaker 1: opposite side from a policy scampot, what's the argument in

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Speaker 1: favor of giving UH, law enforcement officials broad ability to

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Speaker 1: to hang onto this sort of data. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the argument would be that this is public information. That

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Speaker 1: your license plate number, unlike say your social Security number

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Speaker 1: or other personally identifying information, is there for everyone to see,

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Speaker 1: and that if a private citizen wanted to, for example,

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Speaker 1: collect the data or the information of every license plate

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Speaker 1: number that went by their house, they would be able

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Speaker 1: to do so UH, and that there's no reason the

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Speaker 1: government shouldn't be able to collect that information, particularly if

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Speaker 1: there are safeguards to prevent the use of that information

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Speaker 1: for things other than legitimate criminal investigations. As Jonathan Adler,

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Speaker 1: a professor at Case Western University School of Law, and

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Speaker 1: Catherine Crump, a professor at Berkeley Law School, speaking with

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Law host Gregg's Store. You can listen to Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio Now. Among the top legal stories from Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Law Donald Trump cannot dismantle his charitable foundation while it's

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Speaker 1: under investigation. That's the word from the New York Attorney

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Speaker 1: General's office. State prosecutors are investigating whether the president elect

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Speaker 1: personally benefited from the foundation spending. In attacks filing last year,

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Speaker 1: Trump's charity admitted it violated I r S regulations that

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Speaker 1: prevented from using its money to benefit Mr Trump, his family,

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Speaker 1: or his companies. The European Union is screening ninety two jurisdictions,

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Speaker 1: including the United States, to determine whether they will end

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Speaker 1: up on an EU tax haven blacklist. The list includes

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Speaker 1: sixty five countries or jurisdictions that failed to meet two

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