License Plate Readers Collecting a Massive Amount of Data on Drivers

photo credit:
Michael Katz-Lacabe

Paul Lawrance

Across California police are using license plate readers to collect millions of records on drivers and are supplying those records to intelligence fusion centers.

When Michael Katz-Lacabe asked the city of San Leandro for the all records taken of his car by the readers he found that there had been 112 different occasions he had been photographed. In the records he found a picture of him and his daughters getting out of his Toyota Prius in their driveway, reports CIR.

San Leandro only has one patrol car equipped with a reader. Despite this fact Katz-Lacabe’s car was being logged once a week on average.