Flock License plate tracker cams popping up everywhere now

Flock Safety loves to crow about the thousands of local law enforcement agencies around the United States that have adopted its avian-themed automated license plate readers (ALPRs). But when a privacy activist launched a website to map out the exact locations of these pole-mounted devices, the company tried to clip his wings.

The company sent DeFlock.me and its creator Will Freeman a cease-and-desist letter, claiming that the project dilutes its trademark. Suffice it to say, and to lean into ornithological wordplay, the letter is birdcage liner.

Representing Freeman, EFF sent Flock Safety a letter rejecting the demand, pointing out that the grassroots project is well within its First Amendment rights.

Flock Safety’s car-tracking cameras have been spreading across the United States like an invasive species, preying on public safety fears and gobbling up massive amounts of sensitive driver data. The technology not only tracks vehicles by their license plates, but also creates “fingerprints” of each vehicle, including the make, model, color and other distinguishing features. This is a mass surveillance technology that collects information on everyone, regardless of whether they are connected to a crime. It has been misused by police to spy on their ex-partners and could be used to target people engaged in First Amendment activities or seeking medical care.

 

The US is now doing the same shit

 

Why, in nearly every street in the USA, are workmen laying thick, bright orange, very thick fiber-optic cable bundles? Does every household want or need 10 Gigabits/sec. Internet? Must be a government mandate, because my city can't afford that kind of project.

 

Fiber is cheaper to run and maintain than copper or coax....and everyone else is doing it, so competition has to keep up. What makes me crazy is, why the heck can't they all do it at the same time? My front yard has been dug up four times. ATT, twice - copper update, then fiber, Spectrum fiber, then Google who cut my ATT line. Actually google twice...first round they only dug a two inch slot through the pavement along the curb and tucked it in there. Time and time again you see them pulling the orange, blue or red plastic conduit down the side of the street - and they always leave a mess, but since they are private contractors, when they're gone, they are gone. Oh, and they always hit something...power, water or a gas line...or the other guys' fiber. They blew up half a neighborhood nearby a few years back hitting a gas line.

 

This is the start of knowing who you are, where you are and what you are doing. Springfield ,adjacent to Eugene, has a serious group fighting the installation of Flock there. The pro Flockers say the info is local only--the anti flockers point out that if the federal government issued a subpoena for the gathered info---Springfield would HAVE to turn it over. Inch by inch, foot by foot until everyone is covered by cameras all the time and everywhere. It's going to be important,I think, on who is protesting government actions in the future.

 

"Hundreds of ULEZ cameras destroyed in the growing backlash
Nov 9, 2025 The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that 387 ULEZ cameras have been damaged, stolen or obscured in London as 'Blade Runner activists wage war on the eco-scheme that aims to reduce emissions. So far, the group that opposes the expansion of the ULEZ scheme have targeted the cameras installed by Transport for London."

I don't know that's London wile Americans are asleep at the switch as the big brother police state control grid is erected all around us.

"How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists
More than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national network of surveillance data in connection with protest activity.

• Nov 24, 2025

While EFF and other civil liberties groups argue the law should require a search warrant for such searches, police are simply prompted to enter text into a "reason" field in the Flock Safety system. Usually this is only a few words–or even just one.

In these cases, that word was often just “protest.” https://thefreethoughtproject.com/g...r-network-to-surveil-protesters-and-activists


I don't know what's happening our world turning into that cheap dystopia movie its really happening stuff that sounded like paranoid nonsense 30 years ago is here.

 

This sucks

 

In New York these monitors collect for
"Congestion pricing" sometimes more than once affecting affordability.

 

and

Did you go to a protest this year? Local cops might’ve been searching for you on Flock cameras.
Newly obtained records show that the Spokane County Sheriff's Office made 24 searches across thousands of cameras for cars at protests.
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KS police chief used Flock cameras to track ex-girlfriend


Wichita Eagle
https://www.kansas.com › news › article291059560

Aug 17, 2024 — A Sedgwick, Kansas, police chief used Flock Safety license plate readers to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend's vehicles 228 times over four-plus ...



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