Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed

Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed

Subscribe to the Free Future Newsletter Free Future home Police in Lenexa, Kansas used automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology to pursue a man who wrote a critical op-ed about the police department, according to reporting by Kansas public radio station KCUR. This is a rare public example of exactly the kind of abuse that we’ve long warned against when it comes to mass-surveillance systems like license plate readers. It also comes on the…