Category: license plate

A Vermont bill would bring emoji license plates to the US

Post author By Randall
Post date January 27, 2020
Categories In Emoji, emojipedia, gear, license plate, Politics, Tech, Transportation, unicode, vermont

[ad_1] The bill, introduced by Democrat Rebecca White, would allow drivers to add one of six emoji to their license plates. The pictographs would be in addition to whatever combination of letters and numbers the state’s Commissioner of Motor Vehicles assigns to a car or a driver picks for themselves. So you won’t have to […]

Billions of license plate scans are part of a private surveillance database

Post author By Randall
Post date September 17, 2019
Categories In digital recognition network, drn, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Law Enforcement, license plate, Privacy, repo, surveillance, Tech, Transportation

[ad_1] It costs just $20 to look up a license plate in the data base, and $70 to receive a “live alert” that flags when a plate shows up. As you might have already suspected, this automatic data gathering creates many issues. For one, most of the vehicles in the database are of completely innocent […]

Hackers steal traveler photos and license plates from US Customs

Post author By Randall
Post date June 10, 2019
Categories In breach, cbp, customs, customs and border protection, data breach, gear, government, Internet, license plate, perceptics, Privacy, Security, Tech, travel

[ad_1] A representative didn’t tell TechCrunch how much data had been taken, or how many American citizens were caught up in the breach. The agency said alerted Congress and said it was “closely monitoring” the subcontractor’s associated work. CBP said that none of the info had been spotted on either the dark web or the […]