We have been concerned about the broad spread of license-plate scanners in recent years primarily because of the potential for ubiquitous monitoring. Clearly, a database that allows police to ...

Police record%2C store information on millions of plates on cars not deemed suspicious ACLU collected data on plate scanning through Freedom of Information requests in 38 states Civil rights group ...

Using automated scanners, law enforcement agencies across the country have amassed millions of digital records on the location and movement of every vehicle with a license plate, according to a ...

Automatic license plate readers are the most widespread location tracking technology you’ve probably never heard of. Mounted on patrol cars or stationary objects like bridges, they snap photos of ...

Arizona’s Department of Public Safety is testing a new scanner in police cars that can read the license plates of passing cars. The system then sends the information through a computer ...

As drivers travel throughout Charlotte and much of North Carolina, systems of cameras are scanning thousands of license plates per hour. Automatic license plate reader systems, primarily used by ...

BRIDGEPORT -- Despite concerns expressed by a civil liberties group, local police departments say the use of license plate scanners is a more effective way of doing standard police work that saves ...

A new scanner system will help York police keep a close eye on the community.Officers have a new tool that will focus on license plates.Cops will soon be able to scan and record the license plates ...