Most Americans never question their freedom of movement when they get behind the wheel. You decide where you’re going…and who knows about it. In Norfolk, Virginia, a lawsuit just revealed that thousands of drivers are tracked far more closely than they ever realized.
Lee Schmidt, a retired veteran, teamed up with a nonprofit law group to force the city. The goal was to disclose just how often he’d been logged by the license plate cameras he noticed around town.
The answer, for him specifically: 526 times in less than five months, an average of four scans per day
His co-plaintiff, health care worker Crystal Arrington, was recorded even more. 849 times in the same stretch.
One unnamed local driver was tracked 14 times in just over six hours.
The camera system is run by Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based company that rapidly grew into the nation’s largest supplier of automated license plate readers
Founded in 2017, Flock promotes itself as the “largest public-private safety network” in the country…