Police say license plate readers have helped police recover thousands of stolen vehicles. But the system also indiscriminately collects information on millions of ordinary people going about their day-to-day bu
Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are computer-controlled high-speed camera systems usually placed on street poles, streetlights, highway overpasses, mobile trailers, or connected to police squad cars. ALPRs automatically capture all identifiable license plate numbers, along with location, date,...
The camera will repetitively scan the traffic around the police cruiser in order to trace the potential threats or criminals with warrants out for their arrest.Automatic license plate recognitionis being used all around the world for surveillance applications. Our developed software is being used to ...
License plate reader (LPR)-equipped patrol cars and fixed-camera systems mounted along Southern California's freeways begin "looking" for the suspect vehicle. If a patrol officer does not spot the suspect vehicle first, the strategically placed fixed, mounted cameras throughout the region most ...
An automated license plate reader camera used by the Illinois State Police. Illinois State Police ALPRs were first pitched as a money-making tool, allowing officers to automatically scan thousands of license plates a minute from cameras in their squad cars and find drivers with out...
"If not properly secured, license plate reader databases open the door to abusive tracking, enabling anyone with access to pry into the lives of his boss, his ex-wife, or his romantic, political, or workplace rivals," the report stated. ...
Freedom of Information Act search shows how the U.S. Justice Department expanded a license-plate-scanning program to potentially track drivers nationwide. Read more at Car and Driver.
There’s a fundamental difference between having a police officer on every corner and having a camera on every corner. A camera system allows centralized and coordinated observation of the area it covers. Even if the data is not retained, it allows whoever is monitoring the system to do things...
Vigilant Solutions has amassed a database of more than 2 billion license plate photos by ingesting data from partners likevehicle repossession agenciesand other private groups. Vigilant also partners withlocal law enforcement agencies, often collecting even more data from camera-equ...
A license plate detection and recognition system receives training data comprising images of license plates. The system prepares ground truth data from the training data based prede