<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been<br />| from the dude-where's-my-car dept.<br />| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @13:35 (Government)<br />| with 462 comments<br />| <a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1656234/Massachusetts-Plans-To-Keep-Track-of-Where-Your-Car-Has-Been?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1656234/Massachusetts-Plans-To-Keep-Track-of-Where-Your-Car-Has-Been?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Attila Dimedici writes "Massachusetts wants to establish a database with<br />[0]the information gathered by license plate scanners installed in police<br />cars. The scanners will scan license plates of every car the police<br />vehicle passes and transmit that information (along with the location) to<br />a database that will be made available to various government agencies.<br />The data wil be kept indefinitely."<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1656234/Massachusetts-Plans-To-Keep-Track-of-Where-Your-Car-Has-Been?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1656234/Massachusetts-Plans-To-Keep-Track-of-Where-Your-Car-Has-Been?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1353264">http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1353264</a></p>