← counting-cars-plates
Source
Electronic Frontier Foundation — Atlas of Surveillance
https://atlasofsurveillance.org/
retrieved 2026-08-17
Method
len(real_absence) / len(zero_fips) * 100
from: data/county-classification.json, data/zero-camera-counties.json
Caveats
- Underlying camera locations are volunteer-crowdsourced (DeFlock/OSM), not verified by any camera operator or government body -- likely incomplete, possibly outdated or inaccurate (see repo TERMS.md).
- A county with zero mapped cameras is evidence of an unmapped county, not evidence of camera absence, unless corroborated by an independent source (see README 'Methodology note on absence claims').
- EFF's Atlas of Surveillance only tracks law-enforcement agencies; it does not rule out unshared private ALPR deployments (retail, HOA) in a given county.
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