Privately owned license-plate imaging systems are popping up around Rochester and upstate New York — in parking lots, shopping malls and, soon, on at least a few parts of the New York state Thruway.

The proliferating use of automated license-plate readers by California law-enforcement agencies is bad enough in itself for myriad reasons involving the constitutionally protected privacy of all ...

As public scrutiny continues to mount against the use of license plate readers (LPRs) across the country, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has now ...

CHICAGO -- The Illinois secretary of state on Thursday asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic ...

ELWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- There's growing debate about of the use of automatic license plate readers by local police departments, as some people are worried about what departments do with the information ...

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Automatic license plate readers are the most widespread location tracking technology you’ve probably never heard of. Mounted on patrol cars or stationary objects like bridges, they snap photos of ...

There's another surveillance device that's become the new normal for law enforcement, and that's license plate readers. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: You may have seen one mounted on police car as you've ...

Irani is an associate professor at UC San Diego and a member of the steering committee of TRUST Coalition. She lives in University Heights. Yusufi is deputy director of the Partnership for Advancement ...

License plate scanners have become a fact of life. They're attached to traffic lights, on police cars — even "repo" staff use them. All those devices have created a torrent of data, raising new ...