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“In 2011, a federal appeals court even upheld the case of a San Francisco police officer who stopped a woman after her license plate was mistakenly read by an LPR. She was ordered to pull her vehicle over, subsequently ordered from the car at gunpoint, ordered to her knees, and handcuffed. After it was determined that her car was the wrong one, she filed a lawsuit against the city and the SFPD, a suit that was dismissed on the grounds that there was a reasonable suspicion to stop her and that the officer used reasonable force.”
Your car, tracked: the rapid rise of license plate readers | Ars Technica
Stephanie Booth is a freelance internet geek who lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. Digital Crumble is where she dumps all sorts of interesting stuff she finds online.
