Automated license plate cameras were sold to towns across America as a way to catch car thieves and find missing kids. What those towns bought is an AI-powered dragnet monitoring people’s everyday activity and enabling stalking and other forms of police abuse.
Today we talk with IJ investigative reporter Chris Ingraham and Assistant Director of Media Relations Dan King about the outrageous reality of automated license plate readers and what IJ is doing to stop warrantless mass surveillance on America’s streets.
Plate Privacy Project
Our attorneys are experts on the Fourth Amendment and on how citizens can use it to fight back against government abuse of automatic license plate reader cameras.
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