ALPR Cameras Expand Across U.S., Raising Fourth Amendment Questions

Reported cases of drivers stopped at gunpoint following inaccurate plate scans; allegations of officer misuse to track partners and acquaintances.

Across America, tens of millions of drivers pass unnoticed beneath a growing lattice of cameras that record not just where they are, but where they have been — assembling, plate by plate, a searchable portrait of daily life. Automated license plate readers have expanded so rapidly that the law has struggled to keep pace, and courts are only now beginning to ask whether the aggregate of these observations constitutes something the Fourth Amendment was meant to forbid. The tension is ancient: the desire for safety and the desire for privacy have always pulled against each other, but the scale of

ALPR Cameras Expand Across U.S., Raising Fourth Amendment Questions

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