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October 10, 2005
Automatic License Plate Scanners
From Schneier on Security
One of the oldest smart camera technologies is Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR). As the archives of this blog will point out, this technology is widely used in the UK, but rarely used in the US. I have no doubt that we are only one big media story away from widespread use of ANPR in the US. The article Schneier discusses is a car that drives around the city using ANPR to find cars with unpaid traffic tickets. Its not much of a leap to see this technology being used to identify users with other outstanding warrants. Moreover, there are unanswered questions about how the ANPR data will be handled.
Posted by rshah at October 10, 2005 01:30 PM
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