{"id":50023,"date":"2021-10-24T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50023"},"modified":"2021-10-24T06:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T11:35:00","slug":"wapo-license-plate-scanners-were-supposed-to-bring-peace-of-mind-instead-they-tore-the-neighborhood-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50023","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: License plate scanners were supposed to bring peace of mind. Instead they tore the neighborhood apart."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/22\/crime-suburbs-license-plate-readers\/\">License plate scanners were supposed to bring peace of mind. Instead they tore the neighborhood apart.<\/a> By Drew Harwell:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>License plate readers are rapidly reshaping private security in American neighborhoods, bringing police surveillance tools to the masses with an automated watchdog that records 24 hours a day.<\/p><p>. . .<\/p><p>The explosion of such systems, however, has created a new point of friction between crime-fearing residents and their privacy-minded neighbors, who note that by cataloguing time-stamped photos of every car\u2019s comings and goings, the systems can generate a revealing portrait of drivers\u2019 daily routines \u2014 residents and strangers, alike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: License plate scanners were supposed to bring peace of mind. Instead they tore the neighborhood apart. By Drew Harwell:<\/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-50023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50024,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023\/revisions\/50024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}