Mayor cracks down on ‘ghost vehicles,’ bans ‘camera blockers’
Amazon agrees to prevent shipments to NY
Mayor Eric Adams and Amazon on Thursday took a new step in New York City’s crackdown on “ghost vehicles,” collaborating to further prohibit and prevent the sale of any product advertised on the e-commerce site as a “camera blocker” to anyone ordering such a product within New York state.
As part of the collaboration, Amazon will search for and restrict the sale of smokescreen license plate covers and tinted license plate covers to customers with a New York state address.
Amazon has also agreed to automatically display electronic notices stating that a given item cannot be shipped to New York locations — before one of these products can even be added to a customer’s online shopping cart.