AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency 99.8%
The Washington Post - By Annie Gowen - 5/17/2026, 10:00 AM
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TROY, N.Y. — The civic uproar began quietly, when a mom walking her newborn spotted a strange black contraption at the end of her block: a camera topped with a solar panel. Dierdre Shea researched the camera and learned that it was an artificial-intelligence-assisted license plate reader — the type that have caused privacy concerns... more