VP: Despite legal opinion, plate scanners are still active bit.ly/1khkKQO At the urging of police agencies, the legislation was carried over to the 2015 legislative session. In the meantime, the two lawmakers – state Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax County, and Del. Rich Anderson, R-Prince William County – have organized the Ben Franklin Liberty Caucus to try to forge a consensus on the issue. “If we feel that there needs to be one law that deals specifically with license plate readers, then maybe we can pass that law,” Petersen said. “But of course, that’s today’s technology. Tomorrow’s technology could be having a drone drop into somebody’s backyard. “It’s this issue of warrantless observation, where you have some type of device that tracks somebody without a warrant. Is that legal under Virginia law? Well, my position is, it’s not.” Anderson expressed a concern that license plate data could be merged with other, more personal information, posing a still-greater privacy threat. “With the exponentially increasing levels of technological sophistication, because it moves so fast, it’s hard to come up with a rule set that stays ahead of it,” he said. bit.ly/1khkKQO
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