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Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by jabbywocker »

monerozcash wrote: post #209
RobotCaleb wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still their license plate motto and it's still not dependent on your moral objection

Do you see anyone claiming the opposite? The point is that they will not write the motto on your license plate if you object. I get that HN attracts a certain amount of pedantry, but I can't figure out what exactly you're even trying to be pedantic about. There's not single comment here that could be reasonably interpreted as suggesting that "live free or die" isn't their motto

His pedantic point is that due to the way the original question was written, the answer is “yes” regardless if you object or not.

The question was “isn’t that the state with license plates that say ‘live free or die’?” And even if you get a license plate that doesn’t say it, NH is still the state with those plates

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Post by Spooky23 »

hibf wrote: post #174
Spooky23 wrote: post #142

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Not yet. Facical recognition in 2025 is where LPR was in 2010. As the cost of compute and wireless communications continues to drop, facial recognition will be prolific. There are more limitations with cameras, but AI will make it easy to backtrack movement to a place where they get a clean shot that can identify you. As an example, the transit authority in NYC Metro was able to plug existing security feeds from trai…

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

It does. But more like “the black male with the red hoodie is here”

They don’t say “hibf just walked into the 7-11” yet. The Feds probably have a system that can do that for car passengers traveling on “drug corridors” (ie. I95) today.

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Post by pppppiiiiiuuuuu »

tptacek wrote: post #197
stackghost wrote: post #180

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Really? Me of all people? What about my Slovak ethnic identity do you think so attunes me to the concerns you're bringing?

It's clear in context that they mean your background in computer security and political activism, I don't know where you are getting the idea that it's an comment on your ethnicity.

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Post by [deleted] »

pppppiiiiiuuuuu wrote: post #213
tptacek wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? Me of all people? What about my Slovak ethnic identity do you think so attunes me to the concerns you're bringing?

It's clear in context that they mean your background in computer security and political activism, I don't know where you are getting the idea that it's an comment on your ethnicity.

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Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by reactordev »

jeroenhd wrote: post #188
hibf wrote: post #172

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

Of course they are, that's how they track memberships, payment history, and that kind of stuff. Can't say I really care about a paid parking garage keeping a customer registry. I trust the government a lot more than some random third party company ("flock"), though.

The point isn’t what is the company doing with the data but rather how secure are these IP cameras?

Some are for government spying while others are for government spying and other bad actors.

I’d love to gain access to said parking garage meter camera and scan plates too, only I’m looking for high value targets that just got to work and thus, left their home.

I’m looking at software used to capture, track, and pull data from all these sources in an attempt to build a dragnet like service where you can ask “where is license plate ”?

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Post by venturecruelty »

tptacek wrote: post #200
kasey_junk wrote: post #199

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I’m pretty confused by the innuendo in the posters comment to even get what they are saying, but I can report from the south side of chicago that surveillance cameras are largely popular across demographics.

He's suggesting that Oak Park is supportive of Flock cameras because we're afraid of Black folks.

That's terrible! Nobody would ever say that out loud.

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by venturecruelty »

pilingual wrote: post #20

Put up billboards around metros with a license plate reader that queries this database with each passing car and announce "White Tesla Model Y XYZ-1234 You've been focked for: Inv" What a sick society we live in.

How about we hold our leaders accountable?

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by venturecruelty »

supportengineer wrote: post #158

I believe that the full weight of the nations resources should come into play whenever there are missing or abducted people. CIA, NSA, satellites, all of it. I can’t fathom while we don’t do that already. But absent of that, Flock is the next best thing. Mainly because it reduces the friction to get this information in the hands of local law-enforcement officers. I have zero tolerance for crimes against children and…

The vast, vast majority of child abduction cases are either a domestic dispute between parents, or someone the child knows (also usually a family member). This scaremongering needs to stop, especially when it's used to justify the rapid erosion of our liberties at the hands of an authoritarian government.
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