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License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars (www.wired.com)
submitted 13 hours ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I’m looking for some adversarial material - numbers and letters at various angles that I can stick to the left and right of my license plate. To a human it will be obvious which part is my license plate but it might be sufficient to confuse an ALPR algorithm.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

I am curious what just running it over with a yellow highlighter might do at night

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 2 hours ago

The readers are smart enough to distinguish between them, so it won't actually do what you want. You could try to flood the plate with IR and cover the plate with clear-to-human IR reflecting cover. Might work. Might not.

[–] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 0 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Literally illegal

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

to modify the license plate itself. but it's surroundings? why?

[–] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What do you think obscuring means?

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Obsucuring means making it partially or entirely not visible.

Obfuscating, however...

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

It varies by state and there are no laws that say it needs to be machine readable. It only needs to be human readable.