Browsing: Law Enforcement

Automatic license plate readers (ALPR) and LIDAR speed guns – how they work and how they’re used.

Here are some ideas that could be used as countermeasures to LIDAR and ALPR.

Metadata isn’t considered “data” by anti-surveillance law, so analysis of where you go and when is fair game. Thing is, where you go and when can pick you out of a crowd almost instantly.

The problem with facial recognition being used by law enforcement, and how you can defeat the tech.

I’m glad to see that large companies are getting involved in the discussion.

This extraordinary article at the CATO Institute bears mirroring. Have you seen the customer number on your drivers’ license? Since when are citizens “customers”? Answer – it’s been a while, it’s been right under our nose, and it’s much more widespread than we even dreamed.

Used to be if law enforcement wanted to fingerprint you it took some effort – now they can do it with a smartphone. We’ve moved past national / citizen ID’s to biometrics on the street.