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ALPR Tech Now Preventing Parents From Enrolling Their Kids In School
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Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency
#HackerNews #SuburbanSchools #LicensePlateReaders #StudentResidency #PrivacyConcerns #TechInEducation
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Hello Mastodon! Deflock Broward here. We use public records to track license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance, then publish sources + plain-English explainers.
Starting with Weston: https://deflockbroward.org/weston
#DeflockBroward #Deflock #WestonFL #Broward #SouthFlorida #Florida #PublicRecords #SunshineLaw #OpenGovernment #Privacy #Surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReaders #FlockSafety
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Hello Mastodon! Deflock Broward here. We use public records to track license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance, then publish sources + plain-English explainers.
Starting with Weston: https://deflockbroward.org/weston
#DeflockBroward #Deflock #WestonFL #Broward #SouthFlorida #Florida #PublicRecords #SunshineLaw #OpenGovernment #Privacy #Surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReaders #FlockSafety
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Hello Mastodon! Deflock Broward here. We use public records to track license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance, then publish sources + plain-English explainers.
Starting with Weston: https://deflockbroward.org/weston
#DeflockBroward #Deflock #WestonFL #Broward #SouthFlorida #Florida #PublicRecords #SunshineLaw #OpenGovernment #Privacy #Surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReaders #FlockSafety
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Hello Mastodon! Deflock Broward here. We use public records to track license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance, then publish sources + plain-English explainers.
Starting with Weston: https://deflockbroward.org/weston
#DeflockBroward #Deflock #WestonFL #Broward #SouthFlorida #Florida #PublicRecords #SunshineLaw #OpenGovernment #Privacy #Surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReaders #FlockSafety
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Hello Mastodon! Deflock Broward here. We use public records to track license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance, then publish sources + plain-English explainers.
Starting with Weston: https://deflockbroward.org/weston
#DeflockBroward #Deflock #WestonFL #Broward #SouthFlorida #Florida #PublicRecords #SunshineLaw #OpenGovernment #Privacy #Surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReaders #FlockSafety
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"Flagstaff, Ariz., Cambridge, Mass., Eugene, Ore. and Santa Cruz, Calif., are among a list of at least 30 localities that have either deactivated their Flock cameras or canceled their contracts since the beginning of 2025 – with much of the activity happening in just the last three months….Flock's #AI-powered cameras scan license plates as well as vehicles' identifying details….Santa Cruz was among a number of California cities that learned their local data had been shared with Flock's national network without city officials' knowledge or intent. It was alarming to some officials given that state laws forbid cities from sharing license plate data with federal or out-of-state agencies, or assisting federal immigration enforcement.” Report by Jude Joffe-Block for @npr
#NationalPublicRadio https://www.npr.org/2026/02/17/nx-s1-5612825/flock-contracts-canceled-immigration-survillance-concerns#immigration #surveillance #LicensePlateReaders #MontereyBay #SantaCruz
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#Kansas Town Uses #LicensePlateReaders to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed
Police in #Lenexa , Kansas used automated license plate reader ( #ALPR ) technology to pursue a man who wrote a critical op-ed about the police department, according to reporting by Kansas public radio station #KCUR. This is a rare public example of exactly the kind of #abuse that we’ve long warned against when it comes to mass-surveillance systems like #licenseplate readers.
#surveillance #privacyhttps://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/alpr-against-op-ed-writer
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Records show that #ICE has INCREASED its spending on #surveillancetechnology, looking to spend more than $300 MILLION under Trump for #Social-MediaMonitoringtools, #FacialRecognitionSoftware, #LicensePlateReaders and services to find where people LIVE and WORK! www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
ICE’s interest in high-tech ge... -
Spyware becomes suspect in local public safety use in Washington state. Another failed technology.
#Privacylaws #licenseplatereaders
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules-data-captured-flock-safety-cameras-are-public-records -
Spyware becomes suspect in local public safety use in Washington state. Another failed technology.
#Privacylaws #licenseplatereaders
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules-data-captured-flock-safety-cameras-are-public-records -
Spyware becomes suspect in local public safety use in Washington state. Another failed technology.
#Privacylaws #licenseplatereaders
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules-data-captured-flock-safety-cameras-are-public-records -
Spyware becomes suspect in local public safety use in Washington state. Another failed technology.
#Privacylaws #licenseplatereaders
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules-data-captured-flock-safety-cameras-are-public-records -
Spyware becomes suspect in local public safety use in Washington state. Another failed technology.
#Privacylaws #licenseplatereaders
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules-data-captured-flock-safety-cameras-are-public-records -
Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/
#HackerNews #OaklandCops #ICEData #SFPDPrivacyRights #LicensePlateReaders #ImmigrationPolicy
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Privacy vs Safety: Immigration Tracking Debate Our movements and vehicles being tracked by default is a concerning issue. We discuss the balance between privacy and public safety, focusing on immigration and enforcement. Join us as we examine these crucial aspects. #PrivacyMatters #PublicSafety #Immigration #DataPrivacy #LicensePlateReaders #Surveillance #PolicyDebate #LegalRights #CommonGood #DataSecurityhttps://https://ift.tt/1Q6TyDz
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"EFF has long warned about the dangers of ALPRs, which scan license plates, log time and location data, and build a detailed picture of people's movements. Companies like Flock Safety and Motorola Solutions offer law enforcement agencies access to nationwide databases of these readers, and in some cases, allow them to stake out locations like abortion clinics, or create “hot lists” of license plates to track in real time. Flock's technology also allows officers to search for a vehicle based on attributes like color, make and model, even without a plate number."
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"Earlier this month authorities in Texas performed a nationwide search of more than 83,000 automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras while looking for a woman who they said had a self-administered abortion, including cameras in states where abortion is legal such as Washington and Illinois, according to multiple datasets obtained by 404 Media.
The news shows in stark terms how police in one state are able to take the ALPR technology, made by a company called Flock and usually marketed to individual communities to stop carjackings or find missing people, and turn it into a tool for finding people who have had abortions. In this case, the sheriff told 404 Media the family was worried for the woman’s safety and so authorities used Flock in an attempt to locate her. But health surveillance experts said they still had issues with the nationwide search.
“You have this extraterritorial reach into other states, and Flock has decided to create a technology that breaks through the barriers, where police in one state can investigate what is a human right in another state because it is a crime in another,” Kate Bertash of the Digital Defense Fund, who researches both ALPR systems and abortion surveillance, told 404 Media."
#USA #Trump #Surveillance #PoliceState #Texas #LicensePlateReaders #ALPRs
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>Various AI-powered software programs were purchased under the governor’s border disaster declaration or in response to Abbott’s executive orders to prevent mass attacks, agency records show.
The defense sector is all a big grift.
>Several AI companies, including those that sell tech to DPS, have registered lobbyists in Texas this session, according to state records, including Clearview AI, Flock Safety, and LEO Technologies, which sells the Verus surveillance software. One company also has connections to state law enforcement in Texas: Skylor Hearn, a former DPS deputy director, was a registered lobbyist for Clearview AI in 2020 and 2021 and joined the company as its government affairs director in 2022. During his tenure at the firm, he testified in other states against banning or limiting police use of facial recognition tech. This session, Clearview AI has three registered lobbyists in Texas.
The revolving door keeps revolving.
>The Republican lawmaker cautioned that, while he would not necessarily call the agency’s capabilities a “dragnet,” he had concerns about protecting Texans’ privacy: “It does come into question whether we are creating a wide area of study of people who have not committed a crime and trying to use that for law enforcement purposes.”
"That's not bullshit. It's repurposed bovine waste."
>Meanwhile, Senator Parker’s bill, SB 1964, would require Texas agencies to more thoroughly report on how they use AI and what risks of “unlawful harm” these systems have. Under the bill, state agencies would be required to create impact assessments of any AI-powered tools they deploy—though the reports would be considered confidential and exempt from the Texas Public Information Act.
Intelligence for me but not for thee.
>“People want to make sure that the government isn’t just surveilling people who aren’t doing anything wrong just because they can. ..."
Completely missing the point. The government *defines* what "doing anything wrong" *is*. "Only going after bad guys" is tautological nonsense in this context.
>Shah, the attorney from Just Futures Law, said the dangers of surveillance technologies are easily overlooked because they are not viewed as inherently or imminently violent.
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>“It’s just that it’s creating the infrastructure in which you can be harmed,” Shah said. Plus, she added, many surveillance tools were originally designed for warfare, or by former military intelligence personnel, and should be viewed through that lens and not as the “soft side” of policing, which is how some AI companies market the tools.
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>“These are wartime technologies that are now in the hands of local cops,” she said. “We should be really worried.”At least one person quoted in the article understands the problem. Talk about burying the lede, @TexasObserver :P
#TexasObserver #DragnetSurveillance #Surveillance #texas #AI #PoliceState #DPS #ALPRs #ALPR #ANPR #ANPRs #LicensePlateReaders #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #Flock
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>Various AI-powered software programs were purchased under the governor’s border disaster declaration or in response to Abbott’s executive orders to prevent mass attacks, agency records show.
The defense sector is all a big grift.
>Several AI companies, including those that sell tech to DPS, have registered lobbyists in Texas this session, according to state records, including Clearview AI, Flock Safety, and LEO Technologies, which sells the Verus surveillance software. One company also has connections to state law enforcement in Texas: Skylor Hearn, a former DPS deputy director, was a registered lobbyist for Clearview AI in 2020 and 2021 and joined the company as its government affairs director in 2022. During his tenure at the firm, he testified in other states against banning or limiting police use of facial recognition tech. This session, Clearview AI has three registered lobbyists in Texas.
The revolving door keeps revolving.
>The Republican lawmaker cautioned that, while he would not necessarily call the agency’s capabilities a “dragnet,” he had concerns about protecting Texans’ privacy: “It does come into question whether we are creating a wide area of study of people who have not committed a crime and trying to use that for law enforcement purposes.”
"That's not bullshit. It's repurposed bovine waste."
>Meanwhile, Senator Parker’s bill, SB 1964, would require Texas agencies to more thoroughly report on how they use AI and what risks of “unlawful harm” these systems have. Under the bill, state agencies would be required to create impact assessments of any AI-powered tools they deploy—though the reports would be considered confidential and exempt from the Texas Public Information Act.
Intelligence for me but not for thee.
>“People want to make sure that the government isn’t just surveilling people who aren’t doing anything wrong just because they can. ..."
Completely missing the point. The government *defines* what "doing anything wrong" *is*. "Only going after bad guys" is tautological nonsense in this context.
>Shah, the attorney from Just Futures Law, said the dangers of surveillance technologies are easily overlooked because they are not viewed as inherently or imminently violent.
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>“It’s just that it’s creating the infrastructure in which you can be harmed,” Shah said. Plus, she added, many surveillance tools were originally designed for warfare, or by former military intelligence personnel, and should be viewed through that lens and not as the “soft side” of policing, which is how some AI companies market the tools.
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>“These are wartime technologies that are now in the hands of local cops,” she said. “We should be really worried.”At least one person quoted in the article understands the problem. Talk about burying the lede, @TexasObserver :P
#TexasObserver #DragnetSurveillance #Surveillance #texas #AI #PoliceState #DPS #ALPRs #ALPR #ANPR #ANPRs #LicensePlateReaders #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #Flock
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>Various AI-powered software programs were purchased under the governor’s border disaster declaration or in response to Abbott’s executive orders to prevent mass attacks, agency records show.
The defense sector is all a big grift.
>Several AI companies, including those that sell tech to DPS, have registered lobbyists in Texas this session, according to state records, including Clearview AI, Flock Safety, and LEO Technologies, which sells the Verus surveillance software. One company also has connections to state law enforcement in Texas: Skylor Hearn, a former DPS deputy director, was a registered lobbyist for Clearview AI in 2020 and 2021 and joined the company as its government affairs director in 2022. During his tenure at the firm, he testified in other states against banning or limiting police use of facial recognition tech. This session, Clearview AI has three registered lobbyists in Texas.
The revolving door keeps revolving.
>The Republican lawmaker cautioned that, while he would not necessarily call the agency’s capabilities a “dragnet,” he had concerns about protecting Texans’ privacy: “It does come into question whether we are creating a wide area of study of people who have not committed a crime and trying to use that for law enforcement purposes.”
"That's not bullshit. It's repurposed bovine waste."
>Meanwhile, Senator Parker’s bill, SB 1964, would require Texas agencies to more thoroughly report on how they use AI and what risks of “unlawful harm” these systems have. Under the bill, state agencies would be required to create impact assessments of any AI-powered tools they deploy—though the reports would be considered confidential and exempt from the Texas Public Information Act.
Intelligence for me but not for thee.
>“People want to make sure that the government isn’t just surveilling people who aren’t doing anything wrong just because they can. ..."
Completely missing the point. The government *defines* what "doing anything wrong" *is*. "Only going after bad guys" is tautological nonsense in this context.
>Shah, the attorney from Just Futures Law, said the dangers of surveillance technologies are easily overlooked because they are not viewed as inherently or imminently violent.
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>“It’s just that it’s creating the infrastructure in which you can be harmed,” Shah said. Plus, she added, many surveillance tools were originally designed for warfare, or by former military intelligence personnel, and should be viewed through that lens and not as the “soft side” of policing, which is how some AI companies market the tools.
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>“These are wartime technologies that are now in the hands of local cops,” she said. “We should be really worried.”At least one person quoted in the article understands the problem. Talk about burying the lede, @TexasObserver :P
#TexasObserver #DragnetSurveillance #Surveillance #texas #AI #PoliceState #DPS #ALPRs #ALPR #ANPR #ANPRs #LicensePlateReaders #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #Flock
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>Various AI-powered software programs were purchased under the governor’s border disaster declaration or in response to Abbott’s executive orders to prevent mass attacks, agency records show.
The defense sector is all a big grift.
>Several AI companies, including those that sell tech to DPS, have registered lobbyists in Texas this session, according to state records, including Clearview AI, Flock Safety, and LEO Technologies, which sells the Verus surveillance software. One company also has connections to state law enforcement in Texas: Skylor Hearn, a former DPS deputy director, was a registered lobbyist for Clearview AI in 2020 and 2021 and joined the company as its government affairs director in 2022. During his tenure at the firm, he testified in other states against banning or limiting police use of facial recognition tech. This session, Clearview AI has three registered lobbyists in Texas.
The revolving door keeps revolving.
>The Republican lawmaker cautioned that, while he would not necessarily call the agency’s capabilities a “dragnet,” he had concerns about protecting Texans’ privacy: “It does come into question whether we are creating a wide area of study of people who have not committed a crime and trying to use that for law enforcement purposes.”
"That's not bullshit. It's repurposed bovine waste."
>Meanwhile, Senator Parker’s bill, SB 1964, would require Texas agencies to more thoroughly report on how they use AI and what risks of “unlawful harm” these systems have. Under the bill, state agencies would be required to create impact assessments of any AI-powered tools they deploy—though the reports would be considered confidential and exempt from the Texas Public Information Act.
Intelligence for me but not for thee.
>“People want to make sure that the government isn’t just surveilling people who aren’t doing anything wrong just because they can. ..."
Completely missing the point. The government *defines* what "doing anything wrong" *is*. "Only going after bad guys" is tautological nonsense in this context.
>Shah, the attorney from Just Futures Law, said the dangers of surveillance technologies are easily overlooked because they are not viewed as inherently or imminently violent.
>
>“It’s just that it’s creating the infrastructure in which you can be harmed,” Shah said. Plus, she added, many surveillance tools were originally designed for warfare, or by former military intelligence personnel, and should be viewed through that lens and not as the “soft side” of policing, which is how some AI companies market the tools.
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>“These are wartime technologies that are now in the hands of local cops,” she said. “We should be really worried.”At least one person quoted in the article understands the problem. Talk about burying the lede, @TexasObserver :P
#TexasObserver #DragnetSurveillance #Surveillance #texas #AI #PoliceState #DPS #ALPRs #ALPR #ANPR #ANPRs #LicensePlateReaders #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #Flock
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>Various AI-powered software programs were purchased under the governor’s border disaster declaration or in response to Abbott’s executive orders to prevent mass attacks, agency records show.
The defense sector is all a big grift.
>Several AI companies, including those that sell tech to DPS, have registered lobbyists in Texas this session, according to state records, including Clearview AI, Flock Safety, and LEO Technologies, which sells the Verus surveillance software. One company also has connections to state law enforcement in Texas: Skylor Hearn, a former DPS deputy director, was a registered lobbyist for Clearview AI in 2020 and 2021 and joined the company as its government affairs director in 2022. During his tenure at the firm, he testified in other states against banning or limiting police use of facial recognition tech. This session, Clearview AI has three registered lobbyists in Texas.
The revolving door keeps revolving.
>The Republican lawmaker cautioned that, while he would not necessarily call the agency’s capabilities a “dragnet,” he had concerns about protecting Texans’ privacy: “It does come into question whether we are creating a wide area of study of people who have not committed a crime and trying to use that for law enforcement purposes.”
"That's not bullshit. It's repurposed bovine waste."
>Meanwhile, Senator Parker’s bill, SB 1964, would require Texas agencies to more thoroughly report on how they use AI and what risks of “unlawful harm” these systems have. Under the bill, state agencies would be required to create impact assessments of any AI-powered tools they deploy—though the reports would be considered confidential and exempt from the Texas Public Information Act.
Intelligence for me but not for thee.
>“People want to make sure that the government isn’t just surveilling people who aren’t doing anything wrong just because they can. ..."
Completely missing the point. The government *defines* what "doing anything wrong" *is*. "Only going after bad guys" is tautological nonsense in this context.
>Shah, the attorney from Just Futures Law, said the dangers of surveillance technologies are easily overlooked because they are not viewed as inherently or imminently violent.
>
>“It’s just that it’s creating the infrastructure in which you can be harmed,” Shah said. Plus, she added, many surveillance tools were originally designed for warfare, or by former military intelligence personnel, and should be viewed through that lens and not as the “soft side” of policing, which is how some AI companies market the tools.
>
>“These are wartime technologies that are now in the hands of local cops,” she said. “We should be really worried.”At least one person quoted in the article understands the problem. Talk about burying the lede, @TexasObserver :P
#TexasObserver #DragnetSurveillance #Surveillance #texas #AI #PoliceState #DPS #ALPRs #ALPR #ANPR #ANPRs #LicensePlateReaders #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #Flock
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"Some Motorola automated license plate reader surveillance cameras are live-streaming video and car data to the unsecured internet where anyone can watch and scrape them, a security researcher has found. In a proof-of-concept, a privacy advocate then developed a tool that automatically scans the exposed footage for license plates, and dumps that information into a spreadsheet, allowing someone to track the movements of others in real time.
Matt Brown of Brown Fine Security made a series of YouTube videos showing vulnerabilities in a Motorola Reaper HD ALPR that he bought on eBay. As we have reported previously, these ALPRs are deployed all over the United States by cities and police departments. Brown initially found that it is possible to view the video and data that these cameras are collecting if you join the private networks that they are operating on. But then he found that many of them are misconfigured to stream to the open internet rather than a private network.
“My initial videos were showing that if you’re on the same network, you can access the video stream without authentication,” Brown told 404 Media in a video chat. “But then I asked the question: What if somebody misconfigured this and instead of it being on a private network, some of these found their way onto the public internet?” "
#CyberSecurity #Privacy #Surveillance #USA #LicensePlateReaders #ALPRs #DataProtection
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"DeFlock runs on Open Street Map, an open source, editable mapping software. He began posting signs for DeFlock to the posts holding up Huntsville’s ALPR cameras, and made a post about the project to the Huntsville subreddit, which got good attention from people who lived there. People have been plotting not just Flock ALPRs, but all sorts of ALPRs, all over the world.
“I’ve become good at spotting them just because I’m kind of subconsciously always looking for them,” he said.
“I want everyone to be aware that this is happening. And I don’t think I can change people’s minds—some people will be fine with it. But some people won’t be,” he said. “And hopefully enough people won’t be fine with it and will do something to get them taken down [in their city] or at least better controlled, preferably taken down.”
When I first talked to Freeman, DeFlock had a few dozen cameras mapped in Huntsville and a handful mapped in Southern California and in the Seattle suburbs. A week later, as I write this, DeFlock has crowdsourced the locations of thousands of cameras in dozens of cities across the United States and the world."
#OpenSource #Crowdsourcing #Surveillance #LicensePlateReaders #ALPRs
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"Imagine driving to get your nails done with your family and all of a sudden, you are pulled over by police officers for allegedly driving a stolen car. You are dragged out of the car and detained at gun point. So are your daughter, sister, and nieces. The police handcuff your family, even the children, and force everyone to lie face-down on the pavement, before eventually realizing that they made a mistake. This happened to Brittney Gilliam and her family on a warm Sunday in Aurora, Colorado, in August 2020.
And the error? The police officers who pulled them over were relying on information generated by automated license plate readers (ALPRs). These are high-speed, computer-controlled camera systems that automatically capture all license plate numbers that come into view, upload them to a central server, and compare them to a “hot list” of vehicles sought by police. The ALPR system told the police that Gilliam’s car had the same license plate number as a stolen vehicle. But the stolen vehicle was a motorcycle with Montana plates, while Gilliam’s vehicle was an SUV with Colorado plates."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/human-toll-alpr-errors
#USA #LicensePlateReaders #LicensePlateRecognition #ALPRs #Surveillance
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The DEA run "EPIC Portal" includes access to license plate reader information, drug seizures, intelligence reports, and more.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mexy/inside-the-dea-tool-hackers-allegedly-used-extort-epic-portal
#CYBER #hackers #Hacking #worldnews #worldprivacy #licenseplatereaders #dea -
The danger of license plate readers in post-Roe America - Enlarge / A license plate reader in California. (credit: Gado | Getty I... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1865115 #licenseplatereaders #licenseplatereader #surveillance #roev.wade #privacy #policy
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Some shirts hide you from cameras—but will anyone wear them? - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty)
Right now, you're more than likely spending the vast majo... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1662453 #licenseplatereaders #adversarialfashion #facialrecognition #signaltonoise #surveillance #features #fashion #policy