Activists in more and more cities are pressuring local elected officials to rethink their automated license plate reader contracts, or at least to put more solid privacy protections and accountability in place, EFF’s Rin Alajaji told the Arizona Mirror. https://azmirror.com/2025/11/13/glendale-police-used-an-ethnic-slur-to-search-a-license-plate-surveillance-database/

As age verification laws proliferate around the world, people have predictably turned to VPNs to protect their privacy. Instead of taking this as a sign that surveillance isn't popular, lawmakers have decided they might as well ban VPNs altogether.

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Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politi...

A Washington state trial court has shot down local municipalities’ effort to keep ALPR data secret, making it clear that the public has a right to these records even when the government uses a third-party vendor to conduct surveillance and store personal data.

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Washington Court Rules That Data Captured on Flock Safety Cameras Are Public Records

A Washington state trial court has shot down local municipalities’ effort to keep automated license plate reader (ALPR) data secret.The Skagit Co...