Crime fighter or mass surveillance? In Colorado, license plate readers are high-tech and widespread

Name: Crime fighter or mass surveillance? In Colorado, license plate readers are high-tech and widespread
Uploaded: 2025-09-19T07:52:00-0600
Duration: 5 min 20 s
Description: While license plate readers have been around for decades, the cameras now capture, not just license plates, but vast troves of information. That information is fed into a national database, where it can be combined with other surveillance to develop detailed travel patterns of millions of people.

While license plate readers have been around for decades, the cameras now capture, not just license plates, but vast troves of information. That information is fed into a national database, where it can be combined with other surveillance to develop detailed travel patterns of millions of people.