License Plate Readers and Your Privacy - On The Media

FOYI requests ... keeping data under no regulation ... local option ... criminals ... to where you park and who you visit ... to repossession - public domain just like "guns" in NY

License Plate Readers and Your Privacy - On The Media

Friday, January 04, 2013

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  License Plate Reader (AFP/Getty)

Police car mounted license plate readers collect date, time and location information and are used by law enforcement around the country to help catch criminals. But when Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Eric Roper filed a Freedom of Information request for information on his own car, he got a lot more than he bargained for. In a segment that originally aired in August of 2012, Bob talks to Roper about how Minneapolis police and agencies across the country deal with this potentially sensitive location information.

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