Police Are Increasingly Pulling People Over Because AI Deems Their Driving Patterns “Suspicious” ----- Police are using AI-powered license-plate surveillance to identify people as “suspicious” based simply on their travel patterns. Systems using ALPR data can analyze where someone has driven and flag ordinary behavior—such as traveling between states—as potentially criminal. Those AI alerts are leading to “pretextual” traffic stops. Instead of telling drivers they were flagged by surveillance, officers may cite a minor traffic violation to justify pulling them over, questioning them, and sometimes searching their vehicles. The ACLU warns this represents a major expansion of mass surveillance: rather than using license-plate records to investigate someone already suspected of a crime, AI can continuously analyze the movements of millions of innocent people and generate suspicion where none previously existed, potentially including associations, political activity, protests, and travel. Full story: aclu.org/news/privacy-techno…