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License plate readers

2014-06-17 17:25:08.337132+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

SFGate: Privacy, accuracy concerns as license-plate readers expand talks about a couple of lawsuits around errors in automated licence plate reading and the associated databases which correlate that data with other sources.

Haddad said license-plate readers have an error rate as high as 8 percent. "There's some acknowledgment by the manufacturers," he said, "that there's a significant percentage of the time that they're wrong."

Meanwhile, we see face identification systems being deployed in "anti-terror" boondoggles. What could go wrong?

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