License Plate Tracking
Massachusetts Committee Holds Hearing on Bill to Limit ALPR Use, Help Block National License Plate Tracking Program
BOSTON, Mass. (Jan. 6, 2020) โ A Massachusetts legislative committee held a hearing last week on a bill that would put strict limitations on the use of automated license plate reader systems (ALPRs) by the state. Passage into law would also place significant...
The Growing Transportation Surveillance Control Grid
A bill introduced in the U.S. House would create a real-time national driver surveillance program that would allow law enforcement to know anything and everything about a driver at the click of a button. But even if the bill never goes anywhere, the transportation...
Private Companies Partnering with Cops to Track Your License Plate
Three major automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies have created a mind-boggling database of 14 billion license plates that allows law enforcement to track anyone in real-time. The Digital Recognition Network (DRN) has a database of over 8 billion license...
Massive 30-State, Real-Time ALPR Database About to Go Live
Our worst fears about automatic license plate readers (ALPR) are much worse than we could have imagined. Two months ago, I warned everyone that police in Arizona were using ALPR’s toย “grid” entire neighborhoods. But this story brings public...