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404 Media is investigating police departments' use of Axon license plate recognition cameras and calling for public assistance to obtain activity logs to uncover surveillance practices and data sharing with other agencies.
Drive is a phone-based telemetry system that tracks vehicle metrics like g-force and cornering, and includes alerts for license plate reader cameras to enhance privacy while driving.
Government fusion centers are monitoring anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram accounts to warn police about protests against automatic license plate readers, linking activists to camera vandalism.
The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its contract with surveillance company Flock Safety over serious privacy and civil liberties concerns, marking a major setback for automated license plate reader surveillance in the U.S.
Brazilian startup Gabriel uses AI-powered cameras to scan license plates and share data with police to solve crimes, but critics warn of surveillance state risks. The company has raised $27 million from investors including Qualcomm Ventures and SoftBank.
Deflock announces it has mapped 100,000 Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) cameras across the USA, marking a significant milestone in surveillance infrastructure coverage.
Wink Engineering evaluates the efficacy of neural super-resolution as a pre-filter for license plate OCR, concluding that it fails to improve accuracy and often leads to hallucinated characters compared to training directly on low-resolution data.