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Automated license plate scanning is probably legal for local municipalities (Neil v Fairfax County, SC appeal pending). That doesn't mean it's legal for privat
by matt4077 9y ago
Automated license plate scanning is probably legal for local municipalities (Neil v Fairfax County, SC appeal pending).
That doesn't mean it's legal for private entities to do so, nor is necessarily legal for such data to be, for example, aggregated nation-wide.
See https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/mass-surveillance-of-all-car-trips-is-nearly-upon-us/283922/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/mass-su... for Conor Friedersdorf's article which is attributed with bringing down the last attempt for a "Homeland Security" database of where you were last summer.
- mjevans 9y agoThe correct solution for this concern is to make it legal to obscure the IDENTIFYING part of the license plates (but require that state and 'tabs' are still exposed) while it is parked. Moving the obscurity would constitute modification of private property and should require either a valid documented probable cause or a warrant for the search.