# The One-Way Mirror: America Never Voted for Mass Surveillance | Sequel Sunday

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Podcast: [Common Sense with Chad Law | Political Commentary](https://stenobird.com/podcast/common-sense-with-chad-law-political-commentary-4943048)
Published: 2026-07-20T21:00:00+00:00
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Text the show! Did America ever agree to becoming one of the most surveilled societies in history? Today there are more than 76,000 automated license plate readers operating across the United States, collecting roughly 20 billion vehicle scans every month. Most of them arrived without public hearings, ballot measures, or meaningful public debate. In this Sequel Sunday investigation, Chad Law follows the paper trail behind America's rapidly expanding surveillance infrastructure—not to argue w...

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