Governments in various countries are getting smarter by installing surveillance cameras that have the capability to automatically read license plates of vehicles passing through the vicinity of the camera. While this feature is implemented to efficiently control traffic violations, it has raised privacy concerns among people that led a hacker to design a special kind of apparel to fool the cameras.
The major privacy concern of ALPR is that they can be bought and installed by anyone. They can also record the date, time, and location when a vehicle passes through the surveillance camera. You won’t like being monitored by your neighborhood uncle every time you go out in your car, right?
