Find Nearby Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)

If you don't want to take the risk destroying or spray painting the lense or solar panels of these devices, a picket sign installed right in front of it works pretty well while probably not getting you sent to jail. You may even be able to get away with ziptying a trashbag over it without too much fuss.

What we need is a leak of a Flock database. Ideally, due to a security fuck-up by someone other than the jurisdiction that installed them. (Company itself, or another city doing Flock's warrantless search feature.)

Having granular location data for an entire town's license plates should still be creepy and damaging enough that it gets these things torn out and replaced with something more thoughtfully designed.

(Side note: Flock Safety has paid Mercury nearly half a million dollars in lobbying fees [1]. One of the two lobbyists they hired also lobbies for Tencent [2]. The other for Alibaba [3]. In case you're talking to your local, state and/or federal electeds.)

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyis...

[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/lobbyists/summa...

[3] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/lobbyists/summa...

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Not if the governments do it (strictly speaking, that'd be "data collected for the core functioning of the service").

I wonder if these things read and decode QR codes on cars?

Then you may stick QR code on bumper pointing to web page you control and track when something hits the page.