{"id":19148,"date":"2015-10-10T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19148"},"modified":"2015-10-10T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T15:26:59","slug":"ap-via-wtop-private-database-lets-police-skirt-license-plate-data-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19148","title":{"rendered":"AP (via WTOP): Private database lets police skirt license plate data limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP (via WTOP): <a href=\"http:\/\/wtop.com\/national\/2015\/10\/private-database-lets-police-skirt-license-plate-data-limits\/\">Private database lets police skirt license plate data limits<\/a> by Tami Abdollah: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For years, police nationwide have used patrol car-mounted scanners to automatically photograph and log the whereabouts of peoples\u2019 cars, uploading the images into databases they\u2019ve used to identify suspects in crimes from theft to murder. Nowadays, they are also increasingly buying access to expansive databases run by private companies whose repo men and tow-truck drivers photograph license plates of vehicles every day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP (via WTOP): Private database lets police skirt license plate data limits by Tami Abdollah: For years, police nationwide have used patrol car-mounted scanners to automatically photograph and log the whereabouts of peoples\u2019 cars, uploading the images into databases they\u2019ve &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19149,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19148\/revisions\/19149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}