Pennsylvania license plate reader SUV camouflaged as Google Street View vehicle
This is actually pretty terrifying when you follow this to its logical conclusion.<p>You're going after license plates, which are regulated by state governments. It's illegal to obfuscate them, so there's no way to conceal your identity like you can with some the CCTV stuff. It's essentially an easy, legal way to keep tabs on your population. As the article pointed out, you can also tie this to all kinds of available data, and start creating profiles for people.<p>This is really scary, scary stuff.