DeFlock is a crowd-sourced project to map license plate scanners. It only records the fixed scanners, of course. The mobile scanners on cars are not mapped. The post Mapping License Plate Scanners in the US appeared first on Schneier on Security.

An advocacy groups is filing a Fourth Amendment challenge against automatic license plate readers. > “The City of Norfolk, Virginia, has installed a network of cameras that make > it functionally impossible for people to drive anywhere without having their > movements tracked, photographed, and stored in an AI-assisted database that > enables the warrantless surveillance of their every move. This civil rights > lawsuit seeks to end this dragnet surveillance program,” the lawsuit notes. > “In Norfolk, no one can escape the government’s 172 unblinking eyes,” it > continues, referring to the 172 Flock cameras currently operational in > Norfolk. The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and > seizures and has been ruled in many cases to protect against warrantless > government surveillance, and the lawsuit specifically says Norfolk’s > installation violates that.”...