Introduction A license plate is, by itself, an anonymous string of seven or eight characters. The privacy implications of the surveillance economy documented in Parts 1 and 2 of this series depend entirely on the ability of commercial actors to convert that string into a named individual — with an address, a phone number, a driving history and, increasingly, a...
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Beyond the DMV: The Private Camera Networks Tracking American Drivers Without Buying a Single Record
Introduction State motor vehicle agencies collected at least $282 million selling driver data to private companies in fiscal year 2024, as Part 1 of this series reported. That figure, however, represents only the regulated portion of the U.S. license plate data economy. A parallel and substantially larger ecosystem of private surveillance networks, smart-billboard analytics platforms and connected-vehicle camera systems captures,...
State DMVs Collected at Least $282 Million From Driver-Data Sales, Records Show
Introduction State departments of motor vehicles collected at least $282 million in fiscal year 2024 by selling driver and vehicle records to private companies, according to a public-records investigation by InvestigateTV released in October 2025. The figure reflects responses from only 23 of 50 state agencies, suggesting the national total is materially higher. The disclosures, obtained from 35 state DMVs...
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How a License Plate Becomes a Person: Inside the Correlation Pipeline That Connects Cameras, DMVs and Insurers
Introduction A license plate is, by itself, an anonymous string of seven or eight characters. The privacy implications of the...
Beyond the DMV: The Private Camera Networks Tracking American Drivers Without Buying a Single Record
Introduction State motor vehicle agencies collected at least $282 million selling driver data to private companies in fiscal year 2024,...
State DMVs Collected at Least $282 Million From Driver-Data Sales, Records Show
Introduction State departments of motor vehicles collected at least $282 million in fiscal year 2024 by selling driver and vehicle...
New Jersey’s $2 Billion Legacy Landfill Crisis Raises New Concerns Over Cancer Risks and Environmental Oversight
The former Aeromarine landfill in Keyport, New Jersey, is drawing renewed attention as environmental advocates and residents question whether decades...
The State That Knew: How New Jersey’s Regulatory Failures Fueled Keyport’s Toxic Crisis
For years, the former Aeromarine landfill in Keyport, New Jersey sat quietly along the shoreline of Raritan Bay — deteriorating...
Parental Liability Laws Expand as Minors Gain More Medical Rights Without Parents
WASHINGTON, D.C. — May 17, 2026 — Parents in the United States are facing a growing legal contradiction. Prosecutors are...
Georgia’s Data Center Land Grab: A Policy Choice We Didn’t Have to Make
The Viral Video That Exposed a Larger Policy Problem A viral video from Georgia has turned a local land dispute...
New York Moves to Ban Potassium Bromate: What the Food Safety and Chemical Disclosure Act Means for Bakers, Manufacturers, and Consumers
New York is poised to become the second U.S. state, after California, to ban potassium bromate, red dye No. 3,...