WE SEE YOU, DRIVER: POLICE TRACKING LICENSE PLATE TO GO NATIONWIDE

WE SEE YOU, DRIVER: POLICE TRACKING LICENSE PLATE TO GO NATIONWIDE

WE SEE YOU, DRIVER: POLICE TRACKING LICENSE PLATE TO GO NATIONWIDE by Alfred Ng.

A company that makes a license plate reader announces a national network for law enforcement to follow car movements. It's already in more than 700 cities.

Police often rely on automatic license plate readers to track the movement of cars in their jurisdiction. A surveillance company's new initiative looks to expand those capabilities nationwide.

On Tuesday, Flock Safety, which makes a license plate reader, announced the "Total Analytics Law Officers Network," or TALON.

The network looks to connect the 400 law enforcement agencies using its cameras, allowing agencies that opt in to view camera data from other regions.

License plate readers are like facial recognition for cars: The cameras are trained to pick up the codes on the back of your vehicle and log the time and location.

Like facial recognition, license plate readers are also prone to errors.  Do you find this initiative promising?

Flock Safety said its national network is designed with an "ethical framework" that protects privacy. It has requirements like data automatically deleting after 30 days and footage being encrypted as a security measure.