#deflock

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"No Flock"

Poster spotted in Bloomington, Indiana denouncing Flock surveillance cameras.

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What are ALPRs

Example of an annotated license plate reader photo showing captured vehicle details

Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car's location, date, and time. They also capture your car's make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points.

These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. These systems are marketed as indispensable tools to fight crime, but they ignore the powerful tools police already have to track criminals, such as cell phone location data, creating a loophole that doesn't require a warrant.

The Dangers of ALPRs

Privacy Violations

ALPRs track your movements and store your data for long periods of time, creating a detailed record of your location history.

Risk of Misuse

Data from ALPRs has led to wrongful arrests, profiling, and stalking ex-partners by police officers.

Limited Benefits

There's no substantial evidence that ALPRs effectively prevent crime, despite Flock's unethical attempts to prove otherwise.

ALPRs are a serious risk to your privacy and civil liberties. These systems continuously record your movements without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion. Your driving history is rarely confined to the town or city where the cameras are installed. It's typically shared with thousands of other agencies nationwide (secretly). Once the data is out of your community, you have no control over how it's used or what rules apply, leading to instances of misuse.

What is Flock?

Flock Safety is one of the largest ALPR vendors in the United States. Their cameras are installed for police departments, businesses, and HOAs. Captured vehicle data is uploaded to Flock's cloud system, where participating agencies can search and share information across jurisdictions.

Flock is not the only ALPR vendor, and other vendors still participate in similar practices. See this list of other common ALPR vendors.

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[mudwerks]

Saying the quiet part out loud

DeFlock

Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.

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[theenlightenedoutlaw]

Ok, despite the fact that my header image declares me to be a Son of Liberty, I rarely post openly about political shit. I am certain that it is not difficult to determine where I stand, generally speaking, but I try to keep the activism off of my page.

But this is an issue that I am unwilling to ignore. Largely because this is not a Left/Right issue.

I encourage you to watch the video, S2 Underground explains the issue FAR better than I can.

I encourage you to follow the link to deflock dot org. Look at the map, figure out how often you have had your 4th amendment rights violated based on nothing more than your route to work, or the gym, or the grocery, or the surf break, or the hiking trail, or, God forbid, the range. I encourage you to take steps to protect yourself, to the degree possible. TURN OFF YOUR BLUETOOTH when out in public. Be careful about your phone conversations and your text messages, even the photos you have saved. (yes, even your sick ass memes.)

I further encourage you to call your local government, your state representatives, and your congresspeople. Be polite, be respectful, but voice your opposition to these devices.

We all want safe streets and communities, but this is not the way to do it.

Outlaw, out.

DeFlock

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[sarinisanta]

CEO of the Orphan Crushing Machine calls the organization "Stop the Orphan Crushing Machine" terrorists incapable of seeing the value in crushing orphans, more at 12.

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