Sheffield City Council’s automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) system in the UK exposed 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people, The Register reports. The Register claims that ANPR camera system’s internal management dashboard could be accessed by simply entering its IP address into a web browser, and no login details or authentication of any sort was needed to view and search the live system – which logs where and when vehicles, identified by their number plates, travel through Sheffield’s road network.

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