deflock.me

A Pasadena police sergeant has resigned from the department while he remained under an active internal investigation, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

[Orange County] - Cops across the Golden State accessed the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s (OCSD) Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) system at least 145 times to track protesters within the span of a year and seven months, newly obtained data shows. Eleven California police agencies, one as far as Daly City, located almost 400 miles away, searched for protesters using OCSD’s Flock data, which contains license plate numbers, timestamps, locations, and photos of vehicles and their surroundings. The majority of the dates that police searched for people landed directly on or around dates when protests against ICE were held. The data was shared with Inadvertent by a local anti-ALPR organizer, who obtained it through a public records request with the help of Oakland Privacy. The data, officially called a network audit, is a log spanning approximately 19 months that shows other agencies’ individual queries of OCSD’s Flock. The records provide a snapshot of how police have been using Flock’s powerful mass surveillance system on the public — without the public’s consent.

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The ACLU documents how an automatic license plate reader company has lied about its operations, signaling a need for reputable governments to avoid working with Flock Safety.

A couple of weeks ago their was someone who was asking what could he do with all this nifty solar panels he got from the street. Saw this post on the mesh instance and thought about you

Within the article are responses to public records requests on if agencies are using the Immigration Violator hotlist.

I don’t think it’ll go well for him, but we’ll see, I suppose.

One of the people who joined the fight for digital rights is EFF client Will Freeman. Will created the website DeFlock.me to reveal the dangers of automated license plate readers (ALPRs)—cameras that collect location data on every vehicle they see and upload that to a massive nationwide police database. Deflock.me turns the tables by enlisting ordinary people to track the locations of tens of thousands of ALPR cameras.

Adversarial frame pattern optimization for evading ALPR (automated license plate recognition). Given a photo of your plate, scarecrow generates an optimized grayscale frame pattern and can export an SVG frame template for that pattern, aiming to suppress detection while keeping the plate readable to humans. Keeps the flock away.

Paywall Bypass Link https://archive.is/2Wlz9

The lights have been blinking yellow for a decade or two. I could look out my window and yell it is not a stop for the people stopping for it. Today they made the light actually function and added cameras.

On Monday night at the Christ Church Methodist Church in downtown Troy, local residents participated in-person and virtually in a Flock Cameras Teach-In presented by experts in criminal investigation and computer science. The event was hosted by Troy Residents against Flock Cameras and No Kings Collective.

The article itself is from August, but after seeing Flock cameras at a local Lowe’s store that were missing from the DeFlock map, I thought it’d be worth bringing increased attention to such companies contributing to the propagation of Flock cameras. If there’s a Home Depot or Lowe’s near you that’s not on the DeFlock map already, it might just not have been added yet.