ACLU Wants Details on License Plate Readers
Civil liberties group says it supports the technology but has privacy concerns about how long the collected information is stored.
Information collected by police through the use of automatic license plate readers could lead to violations of privacy, according to lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union. The civil liberties group Monday said in a statement that it had filed a public information request with local and state law enforcement agencies in 35 states seeking details on how long the data is stored. "Automatic license plate readers make it possible for the police to track our location whenever we drive our cars and to store that information forever," said Catherine Crump, staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, in a statement. "The American people have a right to know whether our police departments are using these tools in a …
Walter Gilbert
12:41 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
So, about 300,000 license plates have been scanned since 2005. That's about 120 plates per day. That hardly seems enough to worry about. I could do this in 2 hours seated comfortably beside Belair Rd. I wonder how much this is costing us taxpayers. more ›