Platforms Turn Parking into Surveillance

Major mobility platforms are integrating parking‑reservation networks and require vehicle make/model and license‑plate data, then use QR codes or license‑plate recognition to grant access. That converts garages and lots into nodes in a platform data network and normalizes private ALPR usage tied to corporate accounts. — This matters because it shifts physical urban infrastructure (parking) under commercial platform control, concentrates sensitive movement and vehicle identity data, and sets precedents for how cities, privacy law, and autonomous‑vehicle staging are governed.