Sacramento Sheriff sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states

Re:Sacramento Sheriff sharing license plate reader data with... by petsfed on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:50PM (#36624359)

There's currently months of effort, in part because of the labor constraints. Its not worth paying a guy with a tow truck to go looking for a car that might not even be there. ALPRs exist to lower that cost of labor, potentially to the point that the lender can still make money sending out the repo guy much sooner than 90 days.

I'm not even upset about that. Hell, it might be a net good, I dunno.

The thing that I'm concerned about is that there is no guarantee (or even guard rail, really) against selling that data to a law enforcement organization that would otherwise have to undergo judicial scrutiny to get that data. What happens when some hacker gets a hold of their license plate database and uses it for an actual stalking operation? Or who knows what else?

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Re:Sacramento Sheriff sharing license plate reader data with... by akira2501 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:39PM (#36625433)

ALPRs tell you where a plate is. It doesn't tell you who owns the plate. You'd have to know that already. I'm not sure just having the database grants you the ability to stalk, other than at completely random strangers. If you can stalk someone to the point of getting their plate, you can just stick an airtag on their car.

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