The Western Morning News revealed last summer that 63.99 million images were taken in 2008 by automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras in the region – the equivalent of two every second and almost a 10-fold increase on the 6.7 million records created in 2007.
Records – even for innocent motorists – are kept on a police database for a minimum of two years. Westcountry MPs complained the network had been expanded "by stealth".
Now it has emerged civil rights group Liberty is planning to launch the first legal challenge to forces' uses of the surveillance system.
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