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Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by tsbischof »

snailmailman wrote: post #5

This is a quite scary map. They are all over my local area. It may technically be possible to route a drive around them, but if you take the most convenient path between any two points at least one camera will spot you. I'd have to leave my neighborhood through back roads and enter local shopping areas through sidestreets. This data shouldn't even be collected in the first place, let alone consolidated into a nationa…

If you want to explore navigation I made an app: https://alprwatch.org/navigation. It works fully offline, you just need to download the maps and overlays

Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by groggo »

sciencejerk wrote: post #175

I personally know 3 victims of brutally violent crime. Flock would have detected, but maybe not prevented, two of these cases, where violence occurred in broad, open daylight near main roads and highways. Crimes occurred in left-leaning, anti-police small midwest city. All of the victims were women. I would encourage anti-Flockers and anti-authority individuals out here to question their motives and make sure that th…

I live in Sausalito just north of SF. We have a few cameras on the way into town. Seeing this map actually makes me feel safer. Sure there are hypothetical privacy issues, but for me they're easily outweighed by safety. I don't really get the issue. Ideally this information would be available to law enforcement, but would require a warrant. Is the problem that they can access all of this data without a warrant now?

Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by Rapzid »

snailmailman wrote: post #5

This is a quite scary map. They are all over my local area. It may technically be possible to route a drive around them, but if you take the most convenient path between any two points at least one camera will spot you. I'd have to leave my neighborhood through back roads and enter local shopping areas through sidestreets. This data shouldn't even be collected in the first place, let alone consolidated into a nationa…

They are all over certain neighborhoods and areas in my metro.. At first I thought it was due to the wealth of the neighborhoods but.. Now I'm wondering if the maps is just not fully filled in :|

Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by dopidopHN2 »

bob1029 wrote: post #62

The only flock cameras indicated in my town are the canonical Home Depot arrangement. I'm pretty sure it's part of their standard operating procedures at this point. The effect these have had on the in store experience (at my location) is the primary thing that has me interested in limited deployments. Shopping at HD prior to the ALPRs was a horrible time. I think they finally caught the guy who was stealing the litt…

I don't understand the connection?

What is the guy stealing tbe screw was to walk or bike ?

Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by dopidopHN2 »

owlninja wrote: post #2

I added one a few months ago and went to go check it, and there are 2 others almost right on top of it pointing in different directions, I guess that can't be prevented? I'm fairly certain they didn't add two more ALPRs that close to each other.

Oh, they do. Sometimes its different providers.

This map is missing info for my area. It's hard to not be in that network

Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by k33n »

nyc_data_geek1 wrote: post #176
k33n wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So then we need better access controls, and apparently the people who abuse it to stalk exes and such are already being prosecuted. Doesn’t seem like the technology itself is the core issue here to me.

If a technology, backdoor or capability exists, it's not a question of if it will be abused, but rather when, how, and by whom. Stop being obtuse.

Technophobic take tbh

Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by k33n »

pc86 wrote: post #149
k33n wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So then we need better access controls, and apparently the people who abuse it to stalk exes and such are already being prosecuted. Doesn’t seem like the technology itself is the core issue here to me.

The only way you could have moved this goal post faster is if you had edited your original comment.

I’m a problem solver.
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