Syracuse University is installing controversial license plate readers. One privacy expert calls it a ‘big middle finger to immigrants’

The students and families flooding Syracuse’s university neighborhood for move-in weekend may not have noticed the Syracuse Police Department license plate readers surveilling their vehicles’ movements.

They almost certainly didn’t know that their destination, Syracuse University, may have surveilled them, too.

Syracuse University says it is installing AI license plate readers to surveil the movements of people on or near its campus — but won’t say whether the cameras are yet operational…

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