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.

  • qprimedEnglish
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    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.

    • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      5 minutes ago

      You could just copy others signed codes, so you would also need some sort of totp system.
      Then you could still place some camera capturing and streaming plates of parked cars in real time, so you’d either need 2 way communication with the license plates, where the cameraa tell them to show a code for some specific nonce, and which you could then potentially still stream so would also need severe latency checks, or you would have to get way more reliable gps and make that part of the totp.

    • notfromhereEnglish
      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.