Digital License Plates
Tagsindustry
Full article90 words · extracted from schneier.com · click to collapse
They’re a thing:
Developers say digital plates utilize “advanced telematics”—to collect tolls, pay for parking and send out Amber Alerts when a child is abducted. They also help recover stolen vehicles by changing the display to read “Stolen,” thereby alerting everyone within eyeshot.
This makes no sense to me. The numbers are static. License plates being low-tech are a feature, not a bug.
Tags: law enforcement, privacy, surveillance
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.
Text extracted automatically; images, tables and formatting may be missing. Original: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/digital_license.html