As America speeds along the road to pervasive surveillance, it’s important to protect as much individual privacy as possible.
In Thursday’s Chicago Sun-Times, David Struett reported Chicago has installed at least $430,000 worth of automated license plates cameras across the city. Across the country, ALPRs capture scads of passing license plate numbers, along with the location, date, and time and photos of the vehicles. Sometimes they also snap a photo of the driver and passengers.
