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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

License Plate Data Protected, Destroyed After A Year

Baltimore County police say devices are not linked to red light or speed cameras "nor are they used for intelligence gathering."

Data collected by 19 license plate readers owned by the Baltimore County police are stored securely and destroyed after a year, according to a department spokeswoman. But the information, although wiped from county computer systems, is transfered to a state law enforcement intelligence gathering agency that the Americal Civil Liberties Union has raised concerns about. Elise Armacost, a spokeswoman for the department answered questions about what happens to the data just a day after the American Civil Liberties Union announced it filed public information requests on state and local police agencies in more than 35 states. The civil liberties group is concerned extended storage of such information could lead to privacy violations by law …

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ACLU Wants Details on License Plate Readers

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Zoobie

2:40 am on Monday, August 6, 2012

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Monday, July 30, 2012

ACLU Wants Details on License Plate Readers

Civil liberties group says it supports the technology but has privacy concerns about how long the collected information is stored.

Information collected by police through the use of automatic license plate readers could lead to violations of privacy, according to lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union. The civil liberties group Monday said in a statement that it had filed a public information request with local and state law enforcement agencies in 35 states seeking details on how long the data is stored. "Automatic license plate readers make it possible for the police to track our location whenever we drive our cars and to store that information forever," said Catherine Crump, staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, in a statement. "The American people have a right to know whether our police departments are using these tools in a …

Walter Gilbert

12:41 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012

So, about 300,000 license plates have been scanned since 2005. That's about 120 plates per day. That hardly seems enough to worry about. I could do this in 2 hours seated comfortably beside Belair Rd. I wonder how much this is costing us taxpayers.   more ›

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