STATEWIDE — TWO NEW YORK STATE lawmakers have introduced complementary bills to tighten restrictions on tracking by Automatic License Plate Readers after reports of authorities misusing the technology to hunt down immigrants and other invasive surveillance purposes — such as monitoring people who attend political protests — Gothamist reports.
Legislation has been introduced by Upstate Sen. Michelle Hinchey and her Assembly counterpart, Pamela Hunter, that would create a regulatory framework limiting how long captured plate data can be stored, restrict the use and sharing of data collected by ALPR systems, and establish reporting requirements for the usage of the systems.
Daniel Schwarz, senior privacy and technology strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union, told Gothamist there are “numerous, maybe thousands of license plate readers across the city.”
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