ANPR and Licence Plate Recognition
Automatic number plate recognition is the most widely deployed police AI system in the UK, reading tens of millions of plates each day against national databases. Coverage here follows network expansion, retention periods, access controls, and the growth of equivalent commercial systems such as Flock Safety in the United States.
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Police agencies across the United States are using automated licence plate readers to log passing vehicles. The systems capture images of cars alongside the date, time, and GPS…
Cities should not purchase automated licence plate readers, according to a post co-written by an EFF legal intern. The technology amounts to mass surveillance by photographing…
The chief executive of Flock Safety has assured Fairfax County that its LPR network technically blocks federal access. The company also excludes data from Virginia from AI…
MapQuest has introduced a new feature that maps the locations of known outdoor surveillance cameras and licence plate readers. Users can toggle the layer inside the mapping app…
Flock Safety has recently rolled out mass surveillance programmes across America. The move has prompted concerns over individual privacy and safety.
EFF and the ACLU of Wisconsin have asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to rule that police must get a warrant to search ALPR databases retrospectively. The groups filed a petition…
A Georgia business owner has sued technology company Flock and the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office, alleging they used licence plate cameras to unlawfully track and harass him.…
Canadian software engineer Anthony Sistilli has built a $180 AI-assisted device to identify and record police vehicles. The project has prompted questions from Peel Regional…
A California trial court has dismissed a legal challenge against the city of San Jose over its use of Automatic Licence Plate Reader data. The case, SIREN v. San Jose, challenged…
Participants in the Sentinel Innovation Hackathon 2026 have won a Rs 51 lakh prize after using artificial intelligence to track vehicle number plates. Their breakthrough involved…
Flock Safety plans to cut 18 percent of its workforce by the end of October, which will affect about 270 employees. The company sells artificial intelligence licence plate readers…
A city council has paused a pilot programme to install automated licence plate recognition cameras on streetlights. Councillors have instead referred the scheme to the public…
Flock Safety plans to cut about 18% of its workforce, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday. The company makes AI-powered surveillance cameras and has grown…
Guidance has been issued on how to identify Flock surveillance cameras amid rising privacy worries and public confusion over tracking devices. The automatic licence-plate reading…
A federal jury in Texas has awarded a driver 76 dollars after he was unlawfully stopped using automated licence plate reader data. Alek Schott sued Bexar County and its sheriff…
Great Barrington is the only police department in Berkshire County using its own automated licence-plate readers. Other agencies can ask to search the collected data. This access…
A surveillance company wants to add facial recognition technology to Flock camera data used by police. Alongside this development, a massive data breach has hit the FBI,…