Privacy’s worst nightmare: company advertises over one billion license plate records

[jakeXT]

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“Our worst nightmare with respect to automatic license plate readers is quickly becoming a reality,” one of the bloggers wrote on Tuesday. “Federal, state and local law enforcement appear to agree with the NSA's 'collect it all' mentality when it comes to tracking the movements of innocent motorists. And a video produced by a corporation that is making lots of money off of the destruction of our privacy shows just how that data can be used against us.”

Indeed, the blog linked to a YouTube video uploaded earlier this year by LPR company Vigilant Solutions that shows just how prevalent the technology is becoming and the extensive abilities it affords investigators as a result.

The video in question is one of many made by Vigilant Solutions in which the company explains just how its tools can be used to track down suspects. As PrivacySOS noted, however, the possibilities of how these products could be used are seemingly endless as more LPR cameras are installed around the country and millions upon millions of logs are being recorded on a regular basis documenting where and when countless cars have been.

In the YouTube clip, a narrator walks through a sample scenario in which an investigator relies on Vigilant Solution’s LEARN (Law Enforcement Archival & Reporting Network) system to see four separate crime scenes within a city that are thought to be linked. A police officer with access to LEARN can load up the application and type in certain addresses and then see the license plates of any car caught on camera within a certain radius and timeframe. By scouring for car details near all four crime scenes, investigators can see if a common vehicle was in the vicinity for more than one incident and then inquire further for information about that automobile or its registered owner.

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http://rt.com/usa/license-plate-ldr-database-039/

[silvershadow]

1. I wonder if this "company" is a MIC asset? Probably feeding data directly to NSA.

I have nothing to back this up, just wondering out loud.

[jtuck004]

2. If they are going to insist on doing this, they should be paying us for our information.

Now.

Because you are the product.

[pam4water]

3. What is a LPR? And ah Vigilant Solutions did they get George Orwell to pick that naem for them O:

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[dreamnightwind]

4. license plate reader - eom