Motorola class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Plaintiff Charli Reyes filed a class action lawsuit against Motorola Solutions Inc.
- Why: Reyes claims Motorola violated privacy rights by operating a license plate recognition system that tracks individuals’ movements.
- Where: The Motorola class action lawsuit was filed in Illinois federal court.
A new class action lawsuit alleges Motorola Solutions violated privacy rights by operating an automated license plate recognition (ALPR) and vehicle tracking system that logs individuals’ movements.
Plaintiff Charli Reyes claims Motorola’s vehicle tracking system violates privacy rights because it tracks people without their knowledge or consent.
Reyes argues the ALPR system, which is used by law enforcement, educational institutions and other entities, “goes beyond basic license plate searches and alerts,” allowing users to review a vehicle’s location history and predict its future whereabouts.
“Motorola’s surveillance apparatus uses license plate recognition (LPR) systems, technology that tracks people’s movements by recognizing license plates and recording vehicles,” the Motorola class action lawsuit says.
Reyes wants to represent a nationwide class and California subclass of individuals whose vehicle tracking data was tracked by Motorola using LPR Systems cameras.
Motorola vehicle tracking violates Californians’ right to privacy, class action argues
The class action lawsuit claims, “Motorola does not notify [individuals] that its LPR Systems subject them to vehicle recordings, identification, location tracking, predictions and analyses of their movements, and other types of surveillance by law enforcement and corporations.”
Reyes claims Motorola is guilty of negligence per se and intrusion upon seclusion as well as violations of California’s ALPR Privacy Act and the California Constitution in regard to right to privacy.
The plaintiff demands a jury trial and requests declaratory and injunctive relief and an award of statutory, actual, compensatory, special, general, punitive and exemplary damages for himself and all class members.
The class action lawsuit comes after a similar complaint was filed against Motorola in Cook County, Illinois, in May that revolved around the company’s ALPR system, as reported by Law360.
A group of five consumers also filed a similar class action lawsuit against Home Depot earlier this year over claims the home improvement and construction supply retailer illegally used ALPR technology to track customers’ vehicles.
Has Motorola tracked your vehicle data using LPR Systems cameras? Let us know in the comments.
The plaintiff is represented by Brian Devall, Tina Wolfson and Bradley K. King of Ahdoot & Wolfson P.C.
The Motorola class action lawsuit is Reyes v. Motorola Solutions Inc., Case No. 1:26-cv-06926, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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11 thoughts onMotorola accused of using license plate cameras to track drivers’ movements
add me – To me, it falls under the 4th amendment of The United States Constitution.
I definitely qualify
I guess they are doing this to me as well in Ohio
There’s no privacy in public anyway. Hopefully they can start catching more criminals with them.
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Only people that are doing things that are illegal care about who is watching/tracking them, I’m sorry buddy you are not that important, this isn’t a TV show or a Movie, no one cares… Unless you are breaking the law. I worked in loss prevention and I applaud Home Depot for tracking people and vehicles on their private property, there are large theft rings that go from store to store in a day and rob them blind which on turns increases the price of products for the rest of us. So do what you gotta do.
First off that is such a misconception that if you didn’t do anything wrong you have nothing to worry about or if you have nothing to hide who cares who tracks you cops have used this tracking information and tried Prosecuting people for crimes they did not do just because they were in the area I need some of those cases those people happen to have to travel in that area multiple times in a specific week and there was no tracking of them being in that area for years and all of a sudden this crime happens or the countless people that end up getting pulled over at gunpoint because those trackers think that the vehicle that are in is stolen when it’s not it was spread it and the cops have the situation treated as if it’s a stolen vehicle impossible weapons in the car and then sometimes these cops slam into the vehicles to box them in so they can’t run I’m someone who I truly believe I can get away with anything if I wanted to but I’m a family person and I would never do stuff against good people it always be against bad people but let’s say I wanted to do something to somebody I would just hit up places that have people from all over the world airports train stations and let’s say you happen to be visiting someone thousands of miles away from your house I strike up a conversation with you out of just being in each other’s presence because of whatever is happening that situation and I just spark up something about your accent whatever it is where are you from and then you tell me and it’s like what are you doing in this area and then you without even thinking about it say I’m visiting someone so and guess what you’re the person I’m looking for because you’re going to be within 10 miles of the very place I’m going to commit the crime and I’m going to pick stuff up that you touched grab your DNA and I’m going to have it sprinkled all over that scene and you’re going to have an extremely hard time proving that not only did you go buy a place that was near your residence in a manner that they don’t deem needed because of their tracking you but your DNA is going to be at the scene of a crime in which you live thousands of miles from and happened to be staying miles from where this crimes going to happen and all those cameras will have tracked you to getting to that very area and you’re not worried about anything because you don’t do anything wrong but I could easily complete you in a major crime and you would have no idea on how it even got there and almost definitely they would charge you with it because there would be no plausible reason on how you are not the suspect and guess what maybe you get Bond maybe you don’t but if you don’t you’ll get to be tracked in prison just like you want and again you didn’t do anything wrong so there’s nothing to worry about or the question they always ask do you mind if I search your car cuz again if you have nothing to hide you wouldn’t mind them searching your car but this is the problem you don’t know if anybody dropped left something in your car you don’t notice there you don’t check every single person that’s in your car and you don’t know truly what’s someone is into when they’re not around you cuz people hide stuff and some stuff could be something that if fell out of their pocket and they didn’t know it and you get pulled over and you let them search your car now guess who’s going to be the one that has to take that charge but you can tell them that you have nothing to hide cuz you didn’t do anything wrong and it’s not going to matter it’s not going to get you out of that one there’s nothing you will be able to do other than your friend admitting it was theirs possibly getting you out but again I give you scenario after scenario where that thinking is completely flawed and it’s the thinking they want you to have because they can control much easier the police don’t even use these as far as it’s their equipment because they wouldn’t be able to with our rights but they found a loophole if they don’t actually be the ones that are doing this surveillance and a third party is doing it and they pay for that information then that’s perfectly fine and you probably have no understanding that that’s just one technology out there there’s something called fog that tracks everybody’s digital movement they could put up a geofence and know exactly how many times that particular device was in and out how long it was in that area for and then there’s something that your phone does and everybody’s phone does it’s client-side screenshot so no matter how secure or encrypted your information you think is that your transmitting to somebody your phone has already recorded everything and could literally and they actually have this in the phones and don’t have it activated your phone could literally rat you out to the cops if you did something illegal even if you didn’t realize it was illegal or not let’s say something on your phone was breaking the law your phone would send that information to the police and the police would come and arrest you and that’s in the phone now if you don’t believe me research it you don’t give up rights you have because they get taken away and never returned
I am not doing anything wrong why should a technology company track me wether for marketing purposes or otherwise without notifying me first. I’d love to be member of that jury to make the criminal Motorola!
I think the biggest problem with government tracking is is that people are afraid that the government will continue to go down the path of morality laws. (Drug use, prostitution and abortion etc.)
Those things are viewed as being a humans right of autonomy where as others think people would go to prison for them.
Some Muslim countries legislate morality to the point that women are breaking the law if they get in education, drive a car or show their skin in public. (Besides their eyes.)
Should those countries have government cameras and surveillance to enforce their laws?
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A couple of times I was pulled over ripped out of my car and searched they new every town I went to every street I was on then after that every town pulls me over and searches my car every time this is embarrassing and harassment