Cities around the country are debating whether to keep their automatic license plate readers. Concerns about privacy and federal immigration agents accessing local data are driving these debates.

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. At The Ohio State University, Satoru Persons has learned firsthand ...

MAURICE. LAURIE. BRIAN. THE CARROLL TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THE SYSTEM ONLY TRACKS FOUR THINGS. LICENSE PLATE, TIME, DATE AND DIRECTION OF TRAVEL. THEY SAY THE LICENSE PLATE READER COULD ...

Cities around the country are debating whether to keep their automatic license plate readers. Concerns about privacy and federal immigration agents can access local data are driving these debates.

Windsor, Conn., is turning off cameras that take photos of license plates, citing a list of concerns that includes federal agencies previously accessing the data in an effort to enforce immigration ...

Last month, Charlie Wolf attended a meeting of the Greers Ferry, Arkansas, city council to complain about a license plate camera that he said was violating the Fourth Amendment by regularly taking ...

Over the past two decades, Americans have been subject to one revelation after another of how little privacy we actually have, with both government and industry engaging in varying degrees of ...

A bipartisan, two-bill package would define the systems and set limits on how they collect, store and share data. The ...

Sep. 27—Anchorage police officers will soon be able to automatically scan license plates and scour a network of public and private cameras throughout the city. The expansion into additional ...

Salt Lake City has halted a request from its Police Department to buy new automated license plate readers for key traffic intersections after the initiative generated impassioned public pushback.