{
  "id": 18526,
  "url": "https://theconversation.com/new-tech-adds-phone-tracking-to-license-plate-readers-associating-devices-with-identifiable-cars-288876",
  "title": "New tech adds phone tracking to license plate readers, associating devices with identifiable cars",
  "summary": "License plate readers are widely used in the US. A new product marketed to police departments promises to add the ability to sense phones and other devices in passing cars.",
  "authors": "Nicole M. Bennett, Ph.D. Candidate in Geography and Assistant Director at the Center for Refugee Studies, Indiana University",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-11T12:31:35.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-12T05:10:43.828Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-conversation-technology",
  "source_name": "The Conversation Technology",
  "source_homepage": "https://theconversation.com/us/technology",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18526",
  "original_url": "https://theconversation.com/new-tech-adds-phone-tracking-to-license-plate-readers-associating-devices-with-identifiable-cars-288876",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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