Hi, Tyler. Long time no see. I thought maybe you suffered a major loss in competition and died of embarrassment.
Hmm. Mysterious cart with solar panel, battery, unknown electronics, and wheels to make it portable/easily aim-able.
Quoted below is from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
https://www.eff.org/pages/automated-license-plate-readers-alpr Also, if you aren't using their Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere browser add-ons, why not? Major browsers finally offer native support now for an HTTPS only mode, so you don't need the HTTPS Everywhere browser add-on IF you turn it on, but Privacy Badger or something like it is a must for all web browsers, unless you
want advertisers and trackers secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web.
https://www.eff.org/pages/tools Threats Posed by ALPR
ALPR is a powerful surveillance technology that can be used to invade the privacy of individuals as well as to violate the rights of entire communities.
Law enforcement agencies have abused this technology. Police officers in New York drove down a street and electronically recorded the license plate numbers of everyone parked near a mosque. Police in Birmingham targeted a Muslim community while misleading the public about the project. ALPR data EFF obtained from the Oakland Police Department showed that police disproportionately deploy ALPR-mounted vehicles in low-income communities and communities of color.
Moreover, many individual officers have abused law enforcement databases, including license plate information and records held by motor vehicle departments. In 1998, a Washington, D.C. police officer “pleaded guilty to extortion after looking up the plates of vehicles near a gay bar and blackmailing the vehicle owners.” Police officers have also used databases to search romantic interests in Florida. A former female police officer in Minnesota discovered that her driver’s license record was accessed 425 times by 18 different agencies across the state.
In addition to deliberate misuse, ALPRs sometimes misread plates, leading to dire consequences. In 2009, San Francisco police pulled over Denise Green, an African-American city worker, handcuffed her at gunpoint, forced her to her knees, and searched both her and her vehicle—all because her car was misidentified as stolen due to a license plate reader error. Her experience led the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to rule that technology alone can’t be the basis of such a stop, but that judgment does not apply everywhere, leaving people vulnerable to similar law enforcement errors.
Aggregate data stored for lengthy periods of time (or indefinitely) becomes more invasive and revealing, and it is susceptible to both misuse and data breach. Sensible retention limits, specific policies about who inside an agency is allowed to access data, and audit and control processes could help minimize these issues. One of the better privacy protections would be for police to retain no information at all when a passing vehicle does not match a hot list. Speaking of data breaches, my personal information was up for sale
again on the dark web, and I've gotten dozens of phishing emails at my Comcast address. It used to be a "clean" address, compared to my Outlook address which gets tons of spam. But this has gone beyond the typical spam to phishing for sensitive information, or trying to get me to click on something to start installing malware such as ransomware. I planned on starting a post about it and some of the things you can do to minimize your risk, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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