Your car is being tracked across Birmingham. The city won’t say what happens to the data

When you’re driving around Birmingham, your car is being watched — and you probably don’t notice.

Automated license plate readers have been popping up in communities across the country. These small, inconspicuous cameras log where your car has been, when it was there and even what it looks like. Not just criminals. Everyone.

“We are funding our own surveillance and how that data is used against us is kind of gross,” said Darrell Nance, founder of DeFlock Birmingham, a group pushing for transparency on surveillance technology…

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