Mike Tech Brief — FBI plate-reader dragnet, Plex's 3x price jump, and the agent-tooling glut
Welcome to Storyflo Daily Tech. I'm Mike, here's what mattered today. The story I'd lead with is the surveillance one. " This is a federal agency formalizing what local police departments have built piecemeal — a continuous, warrantless feed of vehicle movement across every camera-equipped intersection in the country.
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Welcome to Storyflo Daily Tech. I'm Mike, here's what mattered today.
The story I'd lead with is the surveillance one. Ars Technica reports the FBI has posted a procurement notice seeking nationwide access to license-plate-reader networks, with the contracts explicitly asking vendors to provide data "in near real time." This is a federal agency formalizing what local police departments have built piecemeal — a continuous, warrantless feed of vehicle movement across every camera-equipped intersection in the country. The procurement language matters: "near real time" turns the LPR network from a forensic tool into a live tracking grid. If you've followed the ALPR debate, this is the moment the federal layer locks in.