Stanford CIS

Denver-area neighborhoods are installing license plate readers to record every vehicle that passes by

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"“We can’t begin to fathom how fast we’re moving to a ‘Star Trek’ world,” said Albert Gidari, consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.

The cameras themselves aren’t necessarily a violation of privacy, said Gidari, the Stanford privacy expert. They are collecting images of people traveling in public, where people implicitly give consent to being seen and photographed, he said.


“We have to move beyond fear of the collection and focus more on the conduct: Who has access to it? And what can they do it with?” he said."