Ex-cop: it’s “bizarre” if we can’t explain to public what our snooping gear does

Enlarge (credit: Cyrus Farivar) For years, Ars has been examining how surveillance technology is used in practice in Oakland, California. In March 2015, Ars published a feature on license plate readers and what a large LPR dataset, as obtained from the Oakland Police Department, can reveal. In January 2016, the city codified a Privacy Advisory […]