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An empirical examination of license plate recognition technology and its potential implications for police and courts.

In January 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of U.S. v. Jones, which involved the warrantless placement of a surveillance device (a "beeper") on a private vehicle by the police in Washington, D.C. While concealed on the vehicle, the beeper recorded location data over the course of four weeks and, during this time, transmitted more than 2,000 pages of location information to police.1 Ultimately, the Court decided that the warrantless placement of this surveillance device represented an unconstitutional search. To arrive at this conclusion, the five …