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.

  • notfromhere@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    What about a thin e-ink layer plus led layer display that fits over the plate and would block the plate while displaying a digital plate over it? May need a few rounds of evolution there but might work

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      very cool idea. they will counter with RFID or turn the plate into the equiv of a qrcode. store a cryptographically secure hash of the plate number and you pretty much put an end to that, no?. if I cant get a crypto signed version of your plate, flag the the car as a scofflaw (or worse) and track it as it travels in other ways. I think we are pretty much screwed without a change in laws.

      with anti-women laws in some of these states, this is terrifying.

      • notfromhere@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        We’re probably decades away from them countering with anything meaningful like that unless large swaths of people start doing it.