Gables resident sues city over ‘Big Brother’ surveillance of cars on the street BY SARAH BLASKEY October 26, 2018 07:30 AM Updated October 26, 2018 06:30 AM A Coral Gables resident is suing the “City Beautiful” over a license plate reader system that law enforcement officials say captures data on almost every vehicle that enters…

The plaintiff alleges the collection and retention of vehicle movement data by the system is a violation of the right to privacy. BY SARAH BLASKEY / OCTOBER 26, 2018 (TNS) — A resident of Coral Gables, Fla., is suing the “City Beautiful” over a license plate reader system that law enforcement officials say captures data on almost…

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/10/25/man-suing-coral-gables-plate-reading-cameras/ CORAL GABLES (CBSMiami) – Automatic license plate recognition cameras have been in South Florida for years. Police consider them a useful crime fighting tool. But now they are being called into question over how the data collected is eventually being used. “I think we need to wake up and realize our privacy is important,”…

In the seven years since Coral Gables began installing automatic license-plate readers, resident Raul Mas Canosa estimates the city has captured images of his car “thousands of times.” It’s a reasonable guess: By the end of the year, the City Beautiful is on track to scan more than 30 million license plates despite having a population of…

A Florida man earlier this month filed a lawsuit against his city and its law enforcement, claiming that its use of license-plate-reading technology is unconstitutional, The Miami New Times reported. Raul Mas Canosa, a Coral Gables resident, claimed in a lawsuit filed Oct. 5 that Coral Gables operates 30 cameras around the city and shares its data with…

Philip Hamburger Discusses With The Regulatory Transparency Project Listen Now “We live in a system where regulators make rules, investigate alleged violations of the rules, and then adjudicate those violations before an Administrative Law Judge who is a member of the agency. When agency decisions are appealed to the traditional court system, judges are obligated…