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Government agencies procuring these license plate readers may unknowingly be violating the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which prohibits certain Chinese-manufactured components in federal contracts. This matters because surveillance infrastructure integrated into law enforcement networks represents a high-value target for foreign adversaries, and compromised hardware could enable data exfiltration or system manipulation. 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