{"id":62382,"date":"2025-11-24T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62382"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:22:40","slug":"malwarebytes-what-the-flock-is-happening-with-license-plate-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62382","title":{"rendered":"Malwarebytes: What the Flock is happening with license plate readers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Malwarebytes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/privacy\/2025\/11\/what-the-flock-is-happening-with-license-plate-readers?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20251124_novemberweeklynewsletter_paid_v4_176371066367&amp;utm_content=flock_ALPR\">What the Flock is happening with license plate readers?<\/a> by Matt Burgess:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019re driving home after another marathon day of work and kid-shuttling, nursing a lukewarm coffee in a mug that\u2019s trying too hard. As you turn onto your street, something new catches your eye. It\u2019s a tall pole with a small, boxy device perched on top. But it\u2019s not a bird-house and there\u2019s no sign. There is, however, a camera pointed straight at your car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It feels reassuring at first. After all, a neighbor was burglarized a few weeks ago. But then, dropping your kids at school the next morning, you pass another, and you start to wonder: Is my daily life being recorded and who is watching it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s what happened to me. After a break-in on our street, a neighborhood camera caught an unfamiliar truck. It provided the clue police needed to track down the suspects. The same technology has shown up in major investigations, including the \u201cCoroner Affair\u201d murder case on ABC\u2019s 20\/20. These cameras aren\u2019t just passive hardware. They\u2019re everywhere now, as common as mailboxes, quietly logging where we go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if they\u2019re everywhere, what do they collect? Who\u2019s behind them? And what should the rest of us know before we get too comfortable or too uneasy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malwarebytes: What the Flock is happening with license plate readers? by Matt Burgess:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automatic-license-plate-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62382","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=62382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62383,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62382\/revisions\/62383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}