This Billion-Dollar Network Is Secretly Tracking Your Car

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If you drive in America today, you’ve almost certainly been scanned by a Flock camera, maybe even hundreds of times. Your location, along with a timestamp and photo, all stored in a cloud database accessible to police departments across the country. In this video we’ll explain how this technology can be used for mass surveillance and tracking and how you can fight back in your local city!

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Sharing some links to make it easy for folks to take the next step of finding an event, action, or group near them.

DeFlock’s website: https://deflock.org/

DeFlock directory of advocacy groups across the country - find one near you: DeFlock

More information on the National Week of Action against ALPRs, including a map of groups who will be participating next week (includes groups not in DeFlock’s directory): https://noalprs.com/

If you live in Florida, here are the events the the Florida Digital Rights Association confirms are happening: Participate in the DeFlock National Week of Action, events near you - Aug 16-22! – Florida Digital Rights Association

Hope you can find something near you! Connect with the privacy community in your area!

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This is an important topic to discuss. License plate cameras can be useful for public safety, but people should also understand how their location data and photos are collected, stored, and shared.

Clear privacy rules, limited data retention, and proper oversight seem important to prevent this technology from being misused.

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Thanks for this, OP.

I think it’s also important to talk about Axon Fusus whenever we are talking about Flock. Fusus basically aggregates public and private security video feeds to allow law enforcement to track activity on a singular platform.

Across many US jurisdictions, granting Fusus access to your private camera feed has been made into a requirement to get various licenses. Here’s an example where a Certificate of Occupancy requires that “exterior security cameras shall be accessible to the Rialto Police Department through FUSUS hardware and application.”

These requirements are almost always hidden away in local bylaws and guidelines. So it doesn’t get the visibility it would otherwise get.

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