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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 RHSeeger »

hopelite wrote: post #48
calvinmorrison wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete. They're not a public body, that was my point

They de facto are because they only place cameras in public places and on public land by contract with the government in one form or another; be it with a treasonous sheriff or a treasonous state executive and legislature. The public would not be talking about Flock if they had not worked to create a treasonous surveillance state and instead only did things like monitored truck movements in a logistics depot. The pri…

This feels a lot like "Yeah, but we'll do it anyways until a court makes us stop; because the profit is more than the fine"

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

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Post by hopelite »

pilingual wrote: post #21
user3939382 wrote: post #15

Can’t wait for the Flock Equifax/SouthParkWereSorry-esque breach announcement any day. I should start a betting pool w my friends.

If YouTube personalities can break into the hardware, I wouldn't be surprised if foreign intelligence has already figured out a way. Clownin

Why would they break into individual hardware when they have unfettered access to the whole system in certain countries’ cases and can likely just hack into it in more adversarial cases? It is one of the several reasons why … yes, I know YC backed and funded Flock … the company and everyone in government that contracts for them to provide this mass surveillance service, is objectively and inherently treasonous. But don’t shoot the messenger just because people don’t like the message.

“Whoopsie, my negligence I shouldn’t have been engaging in in the first place” is no exemption from being a traitor, betrayal.

What that means for society and if and what it does about it is a different question. Based on historical trends, it all probably won’t matter since we’ve clearly crossed a threshold and the “PPP” tyranny (different from the trillion dollars in PPP loans that were forgiven and contributed to the inflation) is upon us because it wasn’t prevented when it still could have been.

I don’t think people here are even tracking what is going on in TX, UT, LA (and soon to be nation wide); where as of Jan 1st all new accounts will have to provide government ID to install any app on a mobile device.

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

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Post by hopelite »

tptacek wrote: post #10

Besides the obvious privacy concern: at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete. But, give it a year or two, and you can replace this whole website with a black background and 72 point white bold text "YES".

There is already case law that makes the records collected by government through these methods no different than any other public records, especially since they are publicly visible license plate numbers.

That has its own problems because it shields/deflects from the bigger issue of being treasonous, i.e., grotesque violation of the law of the Constitution, through mass surveillance that has also already been abused for various kinds of criminal acts by law enforcement.

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Post by __del__ »

7e wrote: post #56
jmward01 wrote: post #54

I wonder if I got a license plate holder that said 'I do not consent to selling my position information' if I could sue them.

You have no right to privacy in public, at least in the US.

clarity is good. i believe that was a reference to the futility of posting "i do not consent" messages on social media.

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Post by interloxia »

ccgreg wrote: post #42
mertd wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not very useful? For homeowners, the real estate transactions are public and majority of white collar people have LinkedIn accounts.

So, from home and work, you identify me. Then you figure out which church I attend, and which strip club I attend.

"Wait, user compliance scan identified location traces associated with participitation in community groups prohibited by EasyLife Health™ policy update 2025-12-06b. Recommend to annul contract."

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Post by eastbound »

tossit444 wrote: post #39
xer0x wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloudflare making sites unavailable?

No, Workers free tier is 100,000 requests/day. Considering the error is on the main page, each visit is probably taking a minimum of 10+ requests, so it can easily be overwhelmed.

This is genius if you work in B2C and want to prevent your website from going viral.
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