Who Is Selling Your License Plate Data — ObscureIQ
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License Plate Surveillance · Vendor Research

Do you know who is selling your license plate data?

The answer is not one company. It is a supply chain. Your movements are captured at many points, pooled by aggregators, and resold. Trace any piece of it below.

Click any node to light up where that data flows downstream.
01Source
You and your vehicle
Your plate & identityName, address, and registration tied to one number.
Your movementEvery pass of a camera is a timestamped location point.
02Collection
Where it gets captured
State DMV recordsThe identity anchor. Texas, Florida, Georgia, California, North Carolina and dozens more sell it under DPPA exceptions.
Fixed camerasPole, intersection, and gateway readers on public roads.
Mobile patrol readersSquad-car ALPR scanning plates while driving.
Repo & spotter carsRecovery fleets logging billions of sightings for resale.
Parking enforcementLot, garage, and curbside scanning systems.
Toll & gantry camerasHighway toll points capturing plate + time + location.
Red-light & speed camerasAutomated enforcement feeds with plate capture.
Residential & HOA camerasNeighborhood and community-installed readers.
Retail & commercial lotsPrivate property cameras feeding shared networks.
Insurance & fleet scansTelematics and claims-driven plate collection.
03Aggregation
Where it pools
Flock SafetyCamera maker · national cross-jurisdiction lookup network.
Motorola (Vigilant / DRN)Camera maker + broker · one of the largest historical plate databases.
Tier 1 data brokersAccurint, TLOxp, CLEAR, Tracers — the most accessible buy-path tier.
46 vendors mappedClassified by role, capture depth, and access in the Vendor Atlas.
04Sale
Who profits from it
Camera makersSelling access to their own capture networks.
Brokers & aggregatorsReselling movement records as a commercial product.
Repo & insuranceMonetizing recovery and claims sightings beyond their origin.
You
DMV record
Camera / scan capture
Aggregator
Seller (revenue endpoint)
$500–700M
plausible national total per year. The true figure is hidden by states that refuse to disclose
$282M
the floor: what just 23 states admitted to in 2024. Georgia led at $53M, California $49M
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states let you opt out. Everywhere else, your record is for sale
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Sources: ObscureIQ ALPR Vendor Atlas & DMV Layer analysis. The $282M floor is from InvestigateTV's Oct 2025 investigation (23 of 50 states disclosing FY2024). North Carolina's $41M/yr average is per a 2021 WCNC public-records analysis. Non-disclosing states put the plausible national figure at $500–700M+.
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