Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle

BusPatrol, a company that currently operates over 40,000 stop-arm cameras on school buses across 24 states, plans to convert these cameras into automatic license plate readers that would operate continuously and sell vehicle data to law enforcement. Civil rights advocates are concerned this expansion represents unconstitutional mass surveillance, with leaked documents showing the company expects to deploy 100 license-plate-reading cameras by the end of next month despite awareness of privacy concerns.