A proposal called the Scarecrow system says evading automated license plate recognition from unwarranted photography and capture can be done without breaking any laws.
The research predominantly rejects the collection of license plate data by ALPR operators like Flock, a company that controls cameras in thousands of jurisdictions in the United States.
‘They capture and index every plate that passes.’
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Flock currently has over 100,000 monitored surveillance cameras across the country, and as the researcher Max Harari states, these cameras exist in “our neighborhoods, parking lots, and police networks.”
“They capture and index every plate that passes, feeding a searchable surveillance database with no warrant, no notification, and in most cases no public oversight,” Harari writes.
Harari’s project uses what he calls adversarial frame pattern optimization that generates a grayscale
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