Missouri governor imposes strict limits on Flock license plate readers
Missouri governor orders guardrails on Flock cameras and ALPRs
Gov. Mike Kehoe signed an executive order requiring most license plate data to be deleted within 30 days, banning vendors from selling Missouri-generated data, and prohibiting AI facial recognition with automated license plate readers. The move follows months of privacy backlash and incidents of data misuse by police employees.
The government should not be building a permanent record of where law-abiding Missourians go, who they visit, or how they live their daily lives.
- petcat
Go even further and just adopt the New Hampshire law which doesn't even allow "non-hit" license plate images or records to be transferred off the camera device itself and must be deleted locally within 3 minutes.
- lenerdenator
OP here. Wondering why this was changed to the St. Louis Public Radio link over the Kansas City one.
- nemomarx
This all seems like good and sensible restrictions. Cutting down on how long data can be stored helps with privacy in an cases, and making sure the data isn't being sold or shared with anyone but the state should at least cut off some misuse from private orgs.
- iamnothere
Good to see the “and ALPRs” added. Flock is not the only game in town, and many cities are switching to other vendors while saying that they dumped Flock.
P.S. to the “Flock is YC” guy: everyone posting here knows. You’re not adding anything to the conversation.
- Cider9986
We don't need mass surveillance with guardrails, we need no mass surveillance. This is good, though, unless it prevents getting rid of mass surveillance.