Mon, Aug 03
|801 E St NW
Profs & Pints DC: The Road to Mass Surveillance
on the proliferation of automated license plate readers and the threats that they pose to our freedoms, with Steven Keener, a leading researcher on such devices as an assistant professor of criminology and director of the Center for Crime, Equity, and Justice Research and Policy at Christopher New..
Time & Location
Aug 03, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
801 E St NW, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Road to Mass Surveillance,” on the proliferation of automated license plate readers and the threats that they pose to our freedoms, with Steven Keener, a leading researcher on such devices as an assistant professor of criminology and director of the Center for Crime, Equity, and Justice Research and Policy at Christopher Newport University.
Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) cameras have popped up throughout the country, with Flock Safety emerging as the predominant producer. They capture images of every passing vehicle and feed that data into centralized databases, giving tremendous power to track our movements on the road to both the government agencies that use them and the private companies contracted to operate them.
Proponents of the technology praise it for helping to track stolen cars, felony suspects, and missing persons. But it also has been used by law enforcement officers to stalk ex-partners, and…