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    Comment #46342267

    Technically true. Flock could present an unfounded argument that I might be brute-forcing my own security and privacy measures. I think it'd sound pretty dumb.

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    Comment #46342238

    They don't actually allege anything. They add in the keywords without going so far as to say "this website is doing X." It's enough to trip the keyword filters at Cloudflare and ot…

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    Comment #46342225

    Can't be less than what support has had to say up until now.

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    Comment #46183804

    Whenever anyone does a search in Flock's database, Flock sends the metadata to the related customers. I.e., if someone does a statewide lookup in Nebraska, all Nebraska-based Flock…

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    Comment #46183656

    That seems contradictory. You don't care about a parking garage operator, but at the same time distrust "some random third party company"?

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    Comment #46183617

    I'll assume you're correctly citing the statute — someone entering a sequence of characters in a "Search" field doesn't mean that the search term was "gathered by" or "created from…

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    Comment #46174903

    This automated already, and you don't need a face. Flock does it. https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/reid

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    Comment #46174877

    You assume those aren't logged and accessible by the government. They are.

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    Comment #46174852

    You're right that the dataset is incomplete, but it contains searches done by police, not plates read by Flock. The search logs are public record even when alpr data is not; quite …