Boston Tracks Vehicles, Lies About It, Leaves Data Exposed

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 8, 2015 @10:55AM from the three-strikes-and-you're-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes: License plate readers have been in the news a lot lately for the invasion of privacy they represent. Boston is the latest city to make mistakes with the technology. Two weeks ago, a reporter realized that the City of Boston had accidentally exposed records for their automated license plate reader system online. Anyone could have downloaded "dozens of sensitive files, including hundreds of thousands of motor vehicle records dating back to 2012." What's worse is that the Boston Police Department claimed in 2013 that it had stopped using license plate readers. A look through the accidentally-public database shows "hundreds of emails" dating from 2013 to the present, indicating that the police were still getting that data with help from the Transportation Department.

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the Patriots should come out and support by turkeydance · 2015-09-08 11:03 · Score: 4, Funny

their brothers-in-cheating
The city LIED about it? by sconeu · 2015-09-08 11:10 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm shocked, SHOCKED!!!!
Oh wait... How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips move.

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Re:Boston is for cows by reboot246 · 2015-09-08 11:24 · Score: 2, Funny

Cows don't have license plates, but if they did, I'm sure Boston would track them and lie about it.