DHS’ license plate tracker program quietly expands nationwide
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Watch my former colleague and surveillance expert Catherine Crump explain how police are using license plate readers to track your (almost) every move as you drive around minding your own business.
License plate readers enable police and private companies to collect and retain records showing where we drive, and when. All over the country, police and corporations are keeping detailed records of our movements. In most states there are no laws regulating the use of this information. It amounts to warrantless, dragnet location tracking.
Al Jazeera America did a two-part special on license plate readers, location tracking, and government employee abuse of databases. It's well worth watching.
I appeared on HuffPo Live to discuss the ACLU's new report on license plate readers. Check out the report here.
Today’s front-page Boston Globe expose on license plate readers in Massachusetts sounds the alarm on a problem the ACLU of Massachusetts -- and the national ACLU -- flagged as a potential privacy disaster back in 2010:
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