License-Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records on Drivers

Re:License-Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Reco... by berberous on Saturday June 29, 2013 @05:07PM (#5963724)

>Presently there isn't a national database for ALPR but >they're working very very hard to make this a reality.

Maybe not a government run one, but there sure are private ones. Companies like Vigilant (http://vigilantsolutions.com/) probably have over 1-2 billion plate reads nationwide, and law enforcement agencies can get free access to it (http://nvls-lpr.com/nvls/).

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Re:License-Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Reco... by gregors on Saturday June 29, 2013 @05:41PM (#5963796)

There is also a project which was funded by National Institute of Justice which tried to allow all ALPR systems to insert data into a single repository. That's the present problem right now - two neighboring jurisdictions might have different systems.

source code http://gemini.gmu.edu/cebcp/LPR/for-police-leadership_LPRD.h...

well, the code used to be there. I wonder when they pulled the code?

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