Who's scanning your plate?

Every dot is a mapped automated licence plate reader in Canada. Most scanning isn't dots at all — it's police fleets. Toggle layers below.

Police surveillance ALPR Generalized scanning of everyday movement. What this site is about. A white ring means the force publishes that camera itself — how we know. Mobile fleets 13 services Vehicle-mounted ALPR — the majority of Canadian scanning capacity. Circles sized by fleet; no fixed location exists. Toll / paid service 407 ETR and toll gantries. You entered a paid service billed by plate — scanning is the product. Off by default: it's not the same thing. Border crossings Every land crossing runs plate readers (CBSA / US CBP). A defined checkpoint, not ambient surveillance. Included for completeness. Private & institutional Malls, retailers, campus parking. Scanning private property — but private collections can feed police by request.

Consent and context matter — a toll you pay and a border you cross are not the same as a dragnet on your commute. Every safeguard on these systems is a setting. See how the settings differ →

Start here: four things this data shows — including why most of what Canada's ALPR map calls surveillance is the 407. Every camera is also written out by province and by the force that operates it, and the whole dataset is yours to download and check.