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License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars (www.wired.com)

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From Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that reveal Americans’ political leanings and more.

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[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

I’m looking for some adversarial material - numbers and letters at various angles that I can stick to the left and right of my license plate. To a human it will be obvious which part is my license plate but it might be sufficient to confuse an ALPR algorithm.

[-] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 weeks ago

Literally illegal

[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

It varies by state and there are no laws that say it needs to be machine readable. It only needs to be human readable.

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