Police Tracking with License Plate Scans

Thursday, 18 July 2013 | by Pat's Picks

On the front page of USA Today this morning, the ACLU raises the alarm about the extent to which license plates are scanned to track your whereabouts. Police around the country have adopted a practice of snapping digital photographs of millions of license plates, which they then store to help them (potentially) solve crimes in the future. But a lot of information about innocent people is also scooped up, something that worries privacy experts. Different states have different ways of handling the data—some purge the info after 48 hours (Minnesota) while others keep vast databases (California).

SOURCE: USA Today