We’re So Flocked

Checking the local paper (yes, I still look at print media) and found this article explaining how license plates in the entire county are now being monitored by Flock Safety.

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A number of law enforcement agencies in Sawyer County have advanced their use of tracking technology in recent months with roadside automatic license plate readers (ALPRs).

These devices, sold by a private company called Flock Safety, collect data from every vehicle that drives past. Law enforcement agencies contracting with Flock can then search that data and use it for public safety and investigative purposes.

The Sawyer County Sheriff’s Department, the City of Hayward Police Department and, reportedly, the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Police Department are each using Flock cameras. More

Turns out, we’re not the only ones and citizens are pushing back. Here

20 Comments on We’re So Flocked

  1. I wonder how powerful a laser some awful, terrible, totally antisocial criminal would have to use to permanently damage the image chip in one of those flocking cameras.

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  2. Imagine the person you divorced has access to Flock Safety and the means to search its records. Now imagine John Brennan, James Comey and James Clapper have the same access.

    We’re either going to put limits on being monitored and our every movement documented by government or we’re going to become slave to those running the security systems.

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  3. Illuminate the front and back plates, day and night, with several frequencies of (IIRC) UV LEDs. That should block/blur the cameras from reading your license plate.
    Someone out there should be able to create a circuit running off the 12V car battery and going directly to the plates. And it should (should) use so little current that you should be able to use it day and night.
    Have fun, and rebel on!

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  4. Up here in the wilds of Maine, I’ve blown by cops @ 90 MPH on I95 in a 75MPH zone.
    No radar according to my detector. They are just sitting there recording every vehicle and the time of day which the SP sends to the state capital, who sells the info to third party companies. Data is money in todays world.

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  5. I remember a lot of shit, some of it even happened, but I seem to recall that there was a spray the one could use on a license plate that was invisible (or nearly so) to the human eye but it obscured the plate to a camera. Does anyone else remember this?

  6. They popped up everywhere in my county. One is a mile from the house and at every 4-way stop with no traffic light there’s a camera with a blue light mounted on a telephone pole. Naturally, it’s for our safety of course.

  7. Usta have dark plastic covers over plates to keep carwash brushes from ripping the plates off. Was pulled over, warned that darkened plate covers are illegal. Could it be that darkened plate covers block plate readers?

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