As Federal Court Rules ALPRs are Mass Surveillance, EFF Gets Disappointing Ruling

October 13, 2026 · 5:19 pm 1 sources

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• As Federal Court Rules ALPRs are Mass Surveillance, EFF Gets Disappointing Ruling
  This article was originally published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (CC BY). · October 13, 2026 17:19
  In an extremely disappointing ruling , a California trial court dismissed SIREN v. San Jose , our case challenging the city of San Jose’s warrantless searches of its vast stores of Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) data. EFF and the ACLU of Northern California represent SIREN and CAIR…