A company has found a new way to track your car (and you) without a photo of your license plate. The new tech uses digital fingerprinting to capture identifiers sniffed from devices in your pockets, ...

This Pennsylvania license plate is a design fail. Can you spot why? The Keystone State’s new ‘Let Freedom Ring’ plate solved one problem only to introduce another. Sacramento has been tracking license ...

If data brokers can track the devices you take with you, they know where you live, where you go, and what you do. And the stakes are only poised to climb higher, now that surveillance companies that ...

One line tucked into a federal highway bill would strip funds from cities and states unless they kill their automated plate tracking programs—effectively banning the tech for all but toll collection.

About one year after abandoning a plan to create an automated national database tracking automobile owners’ license plate data and location, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is renewing its ...

A bipartisan bill under consideration in the Colorado General Assembly would limit the government’s use of historical location information after tracking people in the state. Known as the “Protecting ...

State lawmakers clamped down on the use of automatic cameras to track vehicles by their license plates years ago, and Vermont police have told the Legislature they no longer use such surveillance.

Drivers in Los Angeles County have a powerful new privacy advocate after the L.A. County Board of Supervisors pushed to restrict how their license plates are scanned by law enforcement. The board ...