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Police May Know Exactly Where You Were Last Tuesday

on July 17, 2013

'"At first, we didn't think it posed much of a privacy problem," Crump said. The ACLU saw a system that triggered a real-time alert to the presence of a stolen vehicle, or a car linked to a fugitive, and that seemed acceptable. But then the group realized police were storing the license plate scans — whether or not there had been a "hit.""

Date Published:07/17/2013
Original Publication:NPR

Published in: Press , license plate scanners , privacy government surveillance , Privacy