Surprise! Audit finds automated license plate reader programs are a privacy nightmare

guest · Feb 13, 2020

Surprise! Audit finds automated license plate reader programs are a privacy nightmare
February 13, 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/13/s...late-reader-programs-are-a-privacy-nightmare/

Automated license plate readers, ALPRs, would be controversial even if they were responsibly employed by the governments that run them. Unfortunately, and to no one’s surprise, the way they actually operate is “deeply disturbing and confirm[s] our worst fears about the misuse of this data,” according to an audit of the programs instigated by a Californian legislator.

“What we’ve learned today is that many law enforcement agencies are violating state law, are retaining personal data for lengthy periods of time, and are disseminating this personal data broadly. This state of affairs is totally unacceptable,” said California State Senator Scott Weiner (D-SF), who called for the audit of these programs.
The inquiry revealed that the programs can barely justify their existence and do not seem to have, let alone follow, best practices for security and privacy: [...]

In other words, “there is significant cause for alarm,” the press release stated.
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The full report can be read here.
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guest · Feb 14, 2020

California Auditor Releases Damning Report About Law Enforcement’s Use of Automated License Plate Readers
February 13, 2020
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/...g-report-about-law-enforcements-use-automated

The auditor raised a long list of concerns, including fundamental problems with police ALPR policies, failure to conduct audits, and the risk of ALPR data being abused to surveil political rallies or target immigrant populations.
Over the last seven months, the state auditor’s staff spent 2,800 hours surveying every police and sheriff’s department in the state and conducting deep-dives of four agencies.

The audit also reveals that the four departments it examined closely are sharing data from ALPR systems broadly—between those agencies, ALPR data are shared with entities in 44 out of 50 states. The Sacramento County’s Sheriff’s Office alone shares with more than 1,000 entities.
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Based on the outcome of the audit, EFF asks the state legislature to enact new safeguards to limit how police use this technology. [...]
This report clearly demonstrates the ways that these agencies are failing California drivers—and raises serious questions about how entities across the country use and access ALPR data.
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hawki · Oct 23, 2020

"Automated license plate data captured by police legal, Virginia Supreme Court rules

Data collected by police using automated license plate readers, such as time and location information, is not considered 'personal, identifying information' under Virginia law, justices ruled..."

https://wtop.com/virginia/2020/10/a...by-police-legal-virginia-supreme-court-rules/

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