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The Human Toll of ALPR Errors

Electronic Frontier Foundation · EFF Staff · November 15, 2024

EFF documents the systemic human cost of ALPR misreads and database errors: families held at gunpoint, children handcuffed, cars seized for weeks, and a driver mauled by a police dog. Industry accuracy of roughly 90% means 1-in-10 plates are misread, generating thousands of wrongful alerts annually.

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