Mass Surveillance Is Powering a New Era of Pretextual Traffic Stops
An extensive network of automatic license plate readers is being used to develop predictive intelligence to stop vehicles, violating Americans’ rights.
License Plate Cameras
Warrantless Use of License Plate Reader Cameras Is Unconstitutional
A new campaign pushes back against the widespread use of automatic license plate readers without warrants.
Automated License Plate Readers Are Watching You
The technology enables routine surveillance that would have troubled the Fourth Amendment’s framers.
An Arkansas Town Agrees To Remove a License Plate Camera Aimed at a Couple's Home
Local officials initially were unfazed by complaints that the constant surveillance raised serious privacy concerns.
Police Flew Drones Over One California City Nearly 20,000 Times in 6 Years
A WIRED investigation reveals the extent to which residents of Chula Vista are subjected to surveillance from the sky.
The Cops Are Watching You
New online database details the shocking extent of intrusive surveillance tech used by American police.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams Wants You to Love Big Brother
A surveillance state is no less tyrannical when the snoops really believe it's for your own protection.
See the Surveillance State at Work in Your Own Community
The Atlas of Surveillance lets us monitor the agencies that snoop on the public.
The Cops Who Drew Guns and Forced an Innocent Family To Lie on the Pavement Were Dismayed by the Angry Response
After gratuitously terrifying a 6-year-old girl, the officers blamed her mother, who also had done nothing illegal.
Oregon Tried To Silence This Engineer's Red Light Camera Research. Now Experts Say He Was Right All Along.
Mats Järlström's research never would have seen the light of day if the Oregon Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying had its way.
This Boring British Cops Clone May Show the Future of American Mass Surveillance
Mass surveillance is up and running on Britain's roads. Will ours be next?
National I.D. By Any Other Name Still Stinks
A patchwork of state-level systems accomplishes what Americans have specifically rejected, and perhaps far more.
New Montana Law Limits Use of Automatic License Plate Readers
And restricts how long data can be held.
Should the Government Track Your Movements?
A battle over license-plate readers is brewing in Virginia.
L.A. City Council Wants to Send You A Letter When Its License-Plate Readers See Your Car in Certain Neighborhoods
Reckless policy proposed as an anti-prostitution measure.
FBI Was 'Wrestling' With License Plate Reader Privacy Issues, For What That's Worth
Don't get your hopes up. There's no way the feds are passing up this technology.
Ban on Government License Plate Cameras Nears in Montana
Big Sky Country, now with less creepiness.
Georgia Island To Monitor Visitors With License Plate Scanners
What do you have to hide?
Sanford Police Using License Plate Scanners to Accuse Drivers of Consorting with Prostitutes
Don't be in the wrong place at the wrong time for too long!
License Plate Scanners Threaten To Chill Free Association
You act differently when you know you're under observation
License Plate Scanners, Linked With "Fusion Center," Spread Across Northern California
They have their eyes on you
LAPD Sued Over License Plate Reader Privacy Violations
Cops are building a massive database of public movements
Wealthy CA Town Considers a Perimeter of License Plate Readers
Moats are too old-fashioned
License Plate Readers Becoming Universal Among Police Departments
But they'd never misuse that information, right?
Motorists File Class-Action Suit over NYC Red Light Cameras
Say it's a money grab, not for safety
Canada's Privacy Commissioner Opens Inquiry Into License Plate Readers
The push back to the devices begins
Police Want To Track Everybody's Driving Habits
What do you have to hide? Oh ... that.
Boston PD Store License Plate Tracking Data for "Intelligence"
Your trips up Route 1 to the Golden Banana? They know.
