{"id":87344,"date":"2026-05-18T02:37:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=87344"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:37:59","slug":"the-surveillance-state-alprs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/the-surveillance-state-alprs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surveillance State: ALPR&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-87345 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ALPR-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ALPR-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ALPR-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ALPR-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ALPR-850x638.png 850w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ALPR.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What are ALPR&#8217;s?<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"text-left px-6\">Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of\u00a0<b>all passing vehicles<\/b>, storing details like your car&#8217;s\u00a0<b>location, date, and time<\/b>. They also capture your car&#8217;s\u00a0<b>make, model, color<\/b>, and\u00a0<b>identifying features<\/b>\u00a0such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into\u00a0<b>searchable data points<\/b>.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"text-left px-6\">These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles\u00a0<b>regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime<\/b>. These systems are marketed as indispensable tools to fight crime, but they ignore the powerful tools police already have to track criminals, such as cell phone location data,\u00a0<b>creating a loophole that doesn&#8217;t require a warrant<\/b>.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The police&#039;s terrifying new cameras\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vWj26RIlN_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Learn more and access current ALPR Maps at <a href=\"https:\/\/deflock.org\/\">DeFlock.org<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What are ALPR&#8217;s? Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of\u00a0all passing vehicles, storing details like your car&#8217;s\u00a0location, date, and time. They also capture your car&#8217;s\u00a0make, model, color, and\u00a0identifying features\u00a0such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into\u00a0searchable data points. These cameras collect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17168,15696,15169,14643,5594,16173,15639,3712,18982,10173,19122],"tags":[3968,19300,474,8271,9514,16142,10094],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87344"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87352,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87344\/revisions\/87352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}