From Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that reveal Americans’ political leanings and more.

  • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    What about a thin e-ink layer plus led layer display that fits over the plate and would block the plate while displaying a digital plate over it? May need a few rounds of evolution there but might work

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      1 month ago

      very cool idea. they will counter with RFID or turn the plate into the equiv of a qrcode. store a cryptographically secure hash of the plate number and you pretty much put an end to that, no?. if I cant get a crypto signed version of your plate, flag the the car as a scofflaw (or worse) and track it as it travels in other ways. I think we are pretty much screwed without a change in laws.

      with anti-women laws in some of these states, this is terrifying.

      • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        We’re probably decades away from them countering with anything meaningful like that unless large swaths of people start doing it.