Drones with license plate readers are spreading across America, raising fears of mass surveillance, lost privacy, and a future that’s already here ...

A company that makes a license plate reader announces a national network for law enforcement to follow car movements. It's already in more than 700 cities. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred ...

Data can help our society be more productive and efficient. It can also be an invasion of privacy. A Wall Street Journal analysis estimates that the typical American doing everyday activities ends up ...

Automatic license plate readers are the most widespread location tracking technology you’ve probably never heard of. Mounted on patrol cars or stationary objects like bridges, they snap photos of ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is accessing a Bay Area company’s massive license plate database, increasing fears of activists worried about a federal immigration crackdown. Livermore-based ...

The Department of Homeland Security wants a private company to provide a national license-plate tracking system that would give the agency access to vast amounts of information from commercial and law ...

The American Civil Liberties Union is warning that law enforcement officials are using license plate scanners to amass massive and unregulated databases that can be used to track law-abiding citizens ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Police around the United States are ...

The military calls it “mission creep” — sending troops out for one purpose, then adding to their marching orders over time. This kind of metastasis is innocuous in some contexts, but not so benign ...