A Minnesota police chief has not-so-subtly warned state legislators that stopping police from warrantlessly tracking the movements of every motorist could play into ISIS' hands.
Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems are the new rage in law enforcement worldwide. The cameras — affixed to a police car or static locations like telephone poles, or under bridges — capture thousands of license plates per minute, storing information...
An amazing thing is happening in Minneapolis.
Back in August 2012, a local reporter filed public records requests to the Minneapolis PD for license plate data the department captured on a number of high profile people, including the Mayor. The newspaper published 41 data hits it held on the Mayor's city car -- it even mapped them online (see below). (You can click on each hit to see the time and date for each capture.)
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News you shouldn't miss, in case you did:
Late last week the Congressional Research Service published a report, "Drones in Domestic Surveillance Operations: Fourth Amendment Implications and Legislative Responses." I haven't gotten a chance to read through the entire thing yet, but a couple of interesting things jump out right off the bat.
Among them:
