I was under the impression that multiple "towing and recovery" companies drive around all the strip malls every day with lprs and give each other access to the data in order to help each other find cars to steal back for the lien holders..
In some cases the malls themselves allowed stationary cams to be setup at the entrances and used for these purposes - I think an article (in wired?) about a year ago shed light on one in california that maybe changed the cam feed relationship after pointing to a 'terms were posted' defense.
I try to remind people I see that are okay with this tech being deployed at the airport and other places - that the state spending a bunch of money 'to keep an eye out for stolen cars' is just an excuse to grab data that can later be looked at - and is sometimes given to repo men so they can take cars from people who are late on payments.
