Items pertaining to police and law enforcement
License Plates – General Information
Information about the Department of Motor Vehicles and the unique properties of modern license plates.
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License Plates – Law Enforcement, For Better and Worse
Automatic license plate readers (ALPR) and LIDAR speed guns – how they work and how they’re used.
License Plates – Countermeasures
Here are some ideas that could be used as countermeasures to LIDAR and ALPR.
Nullifying TOR or VPN’s with histogram analysis
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.
Law enforcement using Google facial recognition
The problem with facial recognition being used by law enforcement, and how you can defeat the tech.
Limiting the sprawl of facial recognition
I’m glad to see that large companies are getting involved in the discussion.
The New National ID Systems – CATO research
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.
Getting fingerprinted on the street
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.