Government surveillance isn't just in our phone records and search engine history, but on our roads as well.

That's what the Center For Investigative Reporting found when researching the small cameras popping up on police cars across the country known as license plate scanners. License plate scanners allow police officers to quickly scan thousands of license plates a day, looking for runaway criminals or stolen cars. In California there are very few limits on these readers and almost no transparency. These cameras record time and place of your vehicle, and even can store a picture record of your whereabouts.

Michael Katz-Lacabe, a security consultant, requested the records from the San Leandro, Calif., police department of every time his car was scanned. He was amazed at the frightening amount of information police had recorded. His two cars were scanned 112 times since 2009, and average of about twice a week. There was even a picture of him and his two daughters getting out of his Toyota Prius in their driveway.

The Center For Investigative Reporting points out that the use of license plate scanners has been growing quickly and quietly across the country.

Film at 11..... 😣

The USA is a Surveillance State. Just not quite totalitarian yet.

Old news.....ostensibly to find stolen cars....what a load of crap.....start digging and you find that data is collected, kept far longer than necessary, shared with your insurance company and highly likely that it will always be properly secured from the public. Big Brother is so far out in front of this one that you may as well surrender.

can you still buy that clear coat paint stuff that's suppose to hide your plate..?? 😕

I just use cardboard. It's foolproof.

🤔

Just turnaround when you see them.

I'm learning how to drive real fast in reverse.

fortunately we don't here but some states require a tag on da front bumper too..... 😟

I'm learning how to drive sideways too.

When the New World disorder begins, the first people to be hanged should be the ones selling stop light camera technology, then these plate scanning folks, followed by people who tweet & especially the guy who invented that word...

Yes, but it's not paint, it's a plastic cover you put over your plate. I know someone that one on all of his cars. Distorts the plate from all angles. Pretty cool...I think I'll find out where he gets them. (but google is probably a good place to start)



Ohio requires a front plate...I just choose not to put it on. :-"

^ a real rebel8-[

Maryland comes down hard on folks who distort plates from the camera.

It cuts down on their revenue. 🤦

My wife got pulled over once for something unrelated to the front plate (probably speeding). The officer told her to put it on...so I put hers on.

ya.. I think here they tried to claim the license plate is really state property so distorting it was like a felony or something... I pretty sure I bought my plate and didn't sign a lease on it...... 😟

I've seen the platic covers but the paint stuff is suppose to not put off a glossy shine so it can't be noticed as well.... 🤔

It's just a matter of time before they fine us for not wearing driving helmets. Talk about a potential money maker. The other big money maker in Maryland is the school zone which almost always has cameras. Drivers have a knee-jerk Pavlovian reaction & automatically slow down to 35 IMMEDIATELY. lol


My wife was fined ($75?) when her car was photographed overlapping the pedestrian line by about two feet at a light.

Back in high school guys would use rubbing compound and remove the color/paint from the letters/numbers on the plate. You could always try that. If an officer brings it up just tell them you go through the car wash a lot, and the state should make a better plate. 🤥

speaking of scanners and stuff.... have you seen the ones built into the guard rails..?? 😕



http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/speedtrap.asp 

I used the snopes link to save some of you the trouble.... 🤐

We have front plates here. If you put the plastic cover over it and go through certain towns you will get popped.

I guess I'd better stop smiling and waving at the overhead cameras when I'm at a red light then?