Austrailia: World-First Big Brother Sydney Traffic Cameras Capturing Drivers' Private Information Spark Privacy Concerns
The NSW Government's mobile phone detection cameras, heralded as "world-first" road safety technology, work by capturing wide-angled images of all passing drivers and front passengers through the windscreens of cars to check if they're using a phone while behind the wheel.
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Denver-Area Neighborhoods Are Installing License Plate Readers to Record Every Vehicle That Passes By
License plate readers posted at both entrances to an upscale Aurora neighborhood snapped pictures of passing cars Wednesday, recording the type, color and license plate number of each vehicle and inputting that information into a database.
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Hacked Border Surveillance Firms Wants to Profile NYC Drivers
Just months before millions of its internal documents were stolen and dumped on the internet, the Tennessee-based surveillance company Perceptics was preparing to pitch New York's transit authority on how it could help enforce impending "congestion pricing" rules, according to leaked documents reviewed by The Intercept.
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