{"id":64738,"date":"2026-08-28T13:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64738"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:35:33","slug":"wapo-americans-have-turned-against-police-cameras-that-track-license-plates-new-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64738","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Americans have turned against police cameras that track license plates, new survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2026\/08\/28\/americans-turn-against-license-plate-readers-privacy-concerns-grow\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_term=\">Americans have turned against police cameras that track license plates, new survey shows<\/a> by Drew Harwell, Douglas MacMillan, Aaron Schaffer and Kevin Crowe (\u201cFearing the potential for invasive monitoring or abuse, more people now oppose law enforcement\u2019s use of AI-powered cameras than support it, a new survey shows.\u201d \u201cMore Americans now oppose law enforcement\u2019s use of the technology than support it, a reversal from last year as a growing backlash raises concerns about its potential for invasive monitoring and police misuse.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Americans have turned against police cameras that track license plates, new survey shows by Drew Harwell, Douglas MacMillan, Aaron Schaffer and Kevin Crowe (\u201cFearing the potential for invasive monitoring or abuse, more people now oppose law enforcement\u2019s use of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64738\">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":[141,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automatic-license-plate-readers","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64738","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=64738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64739,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64738\/revisions\/64739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}