Two motorists recently won Fourth Amendment decisions. Both cases will likely be appealed, and will have major privacy rights implications for how and where we drive our vehicles. ALPRs in Florida Raul Mas Canosa was mad and decided he wasn’t going to take it anymore. The city where he lives, Coral Gables, Florida, tracked his […]
31 Blog Posts From the ACLU Tag
A Car’s Black Box and a City’s ALPR Program Put to the Test in two Different Courts: NMA E-Newsletter #566
November 18, 2019 • 0 Comments • ACLU, ALPR, BLACK BOX, EDR, EVENT DATA RECORDER, FOURTH AMENDMENT, ILLEGAL SEARCH, LICENSE PLATE, NMA, PRIVACY
ATE Racket Report for November 11, 2019
November 11, 2019 • 0 Comments • ACLU, Automated Traffic Cameras, Automated Traffic Enforcement, BODY CAMERAS, DUE PROCESS, Facial Recognition, LEGISLATION, license plate readers, NMA, PRIVACY, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, School Bus Cameras, Speed Cameras, Technology, TICKET FINES, TRAFFIC CAMERA, Traffic Tickets
Curated by Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director The ATE Racket Report is a weekly feature of the NMA blog. We want to bring the issues of automated traffic enforcement to our supporters in a more coherent up-to-date fashion. We love to hear from you about the report. Please feel free to comment below the […]
Profound Privacy Risks without our Consent
October 25, 2019 • 0 Comments • ACLU, CELL PHONE, Driver's License, Facial Recognition, license plate readers, NMA, PRIVACY, Technology
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This piece was first posted in June 2019 as NMA E-Newsletter #545. GeekWire posted last month that Portland, Oregon quietly launched a controversial mobile location data project with partner Sidewalk Labs (a subsidiary of Alphabet–which is the parent company of Google). In this year-long pilot program, the […]
Law Enforcement is Using License Plate Readers to “Grid” Entire Neighborhoods: NMA E-Newsletter #554
By guest writer Joe Cadillic of the MassPrivatel Blog What does gridding mean? The Arizona Mirror recently described it this way: “As part of the training for the ALPR (automated license plate readers) systems, Chandler police officers are taught to “grid” neighborhoods during their downtime – systematically driving up and down every street in an area, indiscriminately […]
Profound Privacy Risks without our Consent: NMA E-Newsletter #545
June 24, 2019 • 0 Comments • ACLU, CELL PHONE, Facial Recognition, license plate readers, Mass Transit, NMA, PRIVACY, SAFETY, Technology
GeekWire posted last month that Portland, Oregon quietly launched a controversial mobile location data project with partner Sidewalk Labs (a subsidiary of Alphabet–which is the parent company of Google). In this year-long pilot program, the city has authorized that people, who have smartphones, will be tracked without their consent or knowledge. Portland is using software […]
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