Patterns on goods designed to trigger Automated License Plate Readers

A week ago I was sitting at work and a civilian car drove by the office window with a plate reader system and went up and down every row of cars in our parking lot.<p>The car was obviously trespassing, you can&#x27;t be on the property unless you&#x27;re a tenant or guest. But due to the spongy ethics of tech companies, I&#x27;m sure my license plate is uploaded to some database and people know exactly where I work and what time I&#x27;m away from my house.

With a digital license plate it should be possible to display a random number or no number while in those locations(work or mall parking lots, your driveway, etc.,) where there is no legal requirement to show the plate number. Alternatively the digital plate could be configured to flash the plate number at an interval longer than the typical plate reader vehicle takes to pass your parked vehicle. That would at least cut down on the capture rate of government and auto loan companies that cruise parking lots which is a good portion of all scanning activity. Unless the digital plate is reporting it&#x27;s location via cell network.

Ha:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15606675" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15606675</a> (2017)

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Always been a dicey business. I&#x27;d worked on one back in the 80&#x27;s(!) and the issue then was, bumper stickers that had the same aspect ration as a license plate. Plus license plate frames (which must by law not cover any part of the plate with info on them, but often do anyway).

Someone tested this shirt out on EasyALPR Parking Enforcer a recently and it did scan. (I’m putting EasyALPR through Startup School right now)<p>I was wondering about it—-though it was only tested against the image of the shirt, I suspect it would be picked up at close enough range.<p>Most of my work is creating great workflow for handling incorrect or unwanted data gathered using alpr on iOS.<p>If you were waltzing through a the parking lot of one of my commercial property customers and a patroller somehow scanned you—-some admin later that day might frown for a few moments before marking the “vehicle sighting” invalid.

was thinking about some sort of product line of eyewear or mask that would mess with facial recognition.<p>wonder if people would purchase it if it wasn&#x27;t too obnoxious.

These t-shirts will look nice when they make versions addressing Automated Face Readers.

Echoes of William Gibson&#x27;s Pattern Recognition book.

If you&#x27;re gonna put a target on your back, this seems like a solid way to go about it.

Get a shirt with Washington DC license plate 800 002 (Presidential limo)

I need an lcd bumper sticker that displays these randomly very quickly.

how does this help unless the license plates are valid? And multiple people have your plate on their shirt and are walking in front of readers all across the country?

Yeah I doubt it, unless they&#x27;re retroreflective and you&#x27;re in the habit or running down roads.