Two stories today show the fight over automated license plate readers playing out in very different ways: lawmakers want to stop bumper stickers from feeding Flock's data machine, while a college quietly let camera removal turn into a camera reinstallation. Tempe, meanwhile, just banned the tech outright. The other two headlines have nothing to do with surveillance and don't belong in this briefing.
- Your bumper sticker could help Flock cameras track where you go — new bill aims to stop it Fox News
A bumper sticker becoming a tracking vector shows how far function creep has gone; lawmakers are right to close this loophole.
- In Illinois, college paid to remove Flock cameras, then workers in unmarked vehicles uncovered them The Cool Down
Paying to remove cameras then quietly reinstalling them in unmarked vehicles is the kind of bait and switch that erodes public trust fast.
- 'No Kings' foot soldiers ignore organizers' warning, go all in for Democrats Fox News
Not a surveillance story; skip it.
- Inside the family business that turned a famous fair food into an American tradition Fox News
Not a surveillance story; skip it.
- Tempe becomes first Arizona city to ban police use of automated license plate readers ABC15 Arizona
Tempe just proved banning ALPRs outright is possible, not just theoretical; other cities should take note.
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