Minneapolis' database of license plate tracking information just got a whole lot smaller. A police department spokesman, Sgt. William Palmer, said this August that the department stores location data ...

OAKLAND, Calif.—Weeks after Ars published a feature on the scope of license plate reader use, the Oakland Police Department unilaterally and quietly decided to impose a data retention limit of six ...

Despite near-unanimous support in both houses of the Virginia state legislature, Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) recently amended a significant license plate reader data retention bill, sending it back to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Iowa House subcommittee advanced a bill on Wednesday that would require search warrants and limit data retention for automatic ...

ATLANTA - A device mounted on patrol cars that instantly scans every license plate it sees is the focus of a debate over personal rights, government data collection and law enforcement, but a recent ...

The Yakima Police Department has been using patrol vehicle-mounted cameras since 2015 to scan license plates in an effort to solve car thefts and other crimes. Since then, the technology has helped ...