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. >> reporter: jennifer lynch a lawyer with the electronic frontier says with alpr mass surveillanceecame affordable. >> it really has potential to collect data on a scale we have not seen so far. for example in los angeles the lapd has about 250 squad cars equipped with cameras and about 35 stationary cameras, each of the cameras can record up to 1800 plates a minute with the capacity to collect so much data so quickly, these databases are very, very large. >> reporter: large and invasive. >> if a license plate camera picks up your license plate many times during a week, then it can pinpoint your location and chart your pathway through your life. now that can reveal some very sensitive information. it can tell who you associate with, which doctor you're going to, whether you are sleeping in a different house every night and i could not think of another surveillance technology that had tif. >> reporter: just north of st. paul the ramsey sheriff office had the first mobile alpr last year and since then they purchased two more and we went along for a test spin. so it's picking up these