What is flock?
If you click into the website the op shared you’ll easily find out. Flock is a network of automated license plate readers.
A key piece of information is that they freely share data with police and ICE. It’s marketed as a”safety” tool but really it’s a mass surveillance tool that will be used to commit crimes against humanity.
Taps ‘View Map’
Allow deflock.me to use your location?
I get why it’s helpful, but this might discourage the target users from using the tool. Maybe it could request location only if the user taps a ‘locate me’ type button?
Yeah, I wasn’t a fan of that either. Still works if you block it, but as you say, it really shouldn’t be requesting that at all.
I notice they have a general inquiry email in their contact section, maybe they’d be willing to take on your suggestion?
isnt it be using by ICE NOW.
Yes it is, as are Ring Cameras.
Holy shit there are a bunch in my podunk rural town.
People are often convinced these things make the immune to rural burglaries, but they’re expected and remote locations often provide a lot of time to disable internet and power. You would need to be a Starlink + backup generator lunatic and even then it would just help notify + identify.
time to get those down to 0
Fun fact: Flock cameras are susceptible to Lidar damage!
Benn Jordan also came up with a great way to prevent flock cameras from reliably reading license plates using the same methods that artists are using to poison their images for AI.
Can you share a brief description of the method so I don’t have to watch a 30 minute video? 😅
Is there currently any way to make sure you don’t go near these in OSM or CoMaps, when driving? Like automatic routes around them
Sadly the whole point of them is maximum tracking, so they’re installed on key points of the roads. Mapping a route avoiding these is a fool’s errand.
Might still be nice to minimise them if it doesn’t incurr a crazy time penalty?
