ACLU Warns Police Are Using AI to Pull Over Drivers for 'Suspicious' Travel Patterns
Police Are Using AI to Pull over Drivers for 'Suspicious' Behavior
Automated license plate readers are no longer just investigative tools — they're now flagging drivers for supposedly suspicious travel patterns. The ACLU highlights the case of Grace Knowles, pulled over in Florida by an FBI agent who showed her a heat map of her cross-country route and photos of her plate. Privacy advocates warn the cameras track millions of people never suspected of a crime, and a Texas jury recently sided with a driver over an unconstitutional stop enabled by the technology.
It was basically a heat map of the U.S., and I could see different circles where I'd been, and when he clicked on it, it was a photo of my license plate.