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.

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.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    The readers are smart enough to distinguish between them, so it won’t actually do what you want. You could try to flood the plate with IR and cover the plate with clear-to-human IR reflecting cover. Might work. Might not.

    • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 minutes ago

      The readers are just cameras with a sim card and use a simple motion sensor to trigger the camera. All of the processing is server side.

    • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      48 minutes ago

      Readers are not smart. They are trained on data with license plates, and I doubt their training had license plates with extra characters on both sides.