License Plate Readers Exposed! How Public Safety Agencies Responded to Major Vulnerabilities in Vehi

Dermot7 · Oct 28, 2015

Law enforcement agencies around the country have been all too eager to adopt mass surveillance technologies, but sometimes they have put little effort into ensuring the systems are secure and the sensitive data they collect on everyday people is protected.

Case in point: automated license plate recognition (ALPR) systems.
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/...-how-public-safety-agencies-responded-massive

guest · Jan 22, 2019

Police license plate readers are still exposed on the internet
Most of the ALPR devices are shipped with default passwords
January 22, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/22/police-alpr-license-plate-readers-accessible-internet/

You might have heard of automatic license plate recognition — known as ALPR (or ANPR in the U.K. for number plates).
But some cameras are connected to the internet, and are easily identifiable. Worse, some are leaking sensitive data about vehicles and their drivers — and many have weak security protections that make them easily accessible.

Considered a massive invasion of privacy by many and legally questionable by some, there are tens of thousands of ALPR readers across the U.S. collectively reading and recording thousand of license plates — and locations — every minute, the ACLU says, becoming one of the new and emerging forms of mass surveillance in the U.S.

But in the three years past, little has changed.
We asked several ALPR device makers, including PIPS and MissionALPR, if they still produce devices with default passwords and if they offer advice to their customers with legacy equipment, but besides Genetec, no other ALPR device manufacturer commented or answered our questions prior to publication.
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