According to the American Civil Liberties Union, it’s more likely than not that your local government or a private company has all the technology they need to track your whereabouts by scanning your license plate. Certain traffic cameras set up across the country are capable of scanning the tags of every vehicle that drives past. Today, these cameras are used by three quarters of all police departments. If a vehicle has been placed on a police watch list, an alert is triggered and the police department is notified. Less than one percent of all license plates scanned lead to alerts, and even fewer actually result in arrests.
Hundreds of millions of data points are collected and stored by police departments. 99% of all this data stored is on innocent people, but that isn’t stopping local police forces or private companies from scanning your license plate.
Via The Verge
