ALPR

English Noun ~ en US police uncountable en automated/automatic license plate recognition. en ANPR<q:UK> en 2021 w:Kate Crawford Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence 978-0-300-20957-0 6 California-based Vigilant has partnered with a range of governments in Texas, California, and Georgia to provide their police with a suite of ALPR systems to use on patrol, along with access to Vigilant's database. en Chris Eberhart NY police used AI to track drivers on highways as attorney questions legality w:Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/us/ny-police-used-ai-to-track-drivers-on-highways-as-attorney-questions-legality 2023-07-24 "Surveillance networks based on ALPR technology can track people’s movements retroactively with a simple search query," he wrote. https://web.archive.org/web/20230828162350/https://www.foxnews.com/us/ny-police-used-ai-to-track-drivers-on-highways-as-attorney-questions-legality en US police countable en automated/automatic license plate reader. en Chad Marlow & Jay Stanley How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department’s Use of Flock’s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers w:ACLU https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-to-pump-the-brakes-on-your-police-departments-use-of-flocks-mass-surveillance-license-plate-readers 2023-02-13 We don’t find every use of ALPRs objectionable. For example, we do not generally object to using them to check license plates against lists of stolen cars, for AMBER Alerts, or for toll collection, provided they are deployed and used fairly and subject to proper checks and balances, such as ensuring devices are not disproportionately deployed in low-income communities and communities of color, and that the “hot lists” they are run against are legitimate and up to date. https://web.archive.org/web/20250403192530/https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-to-pump-the-brakes-on-your-police-departments-use-of-flocks-mass-surveillance-license-plate-readers Related terms en LPR license plate recognition Anagrams en alpr LARP larp