Bipartisan 'Uprising' Against #Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against #BigTech and #Surveillance?

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/16/217209/bipartisan-uprising-against-flock-cameras-a-larger-fight-against-big-tech-and-surveillance

#privacy #ALPR #police

If you – let says – make a Flock camera more privacy friendly I guess you can recover and put it solar panel to good use, but I guess it can't produce a lot due to it size.

But hey, free energy is still free.

Just saying…

#Surveillance #Tinkering #Flock

404 Media: "....The National Park Service (NPS), the agency tasked with managing the U.S. national parks and monuments, has purchased Flock cameras and had them installed at parks including in Yosemite...."

https://www.404media.co/the-national-park-service-is-using-flock-rangers-are-pissed/

#bigbrother #surveillance #flock #alpr #NPS #NationalParks

After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.

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The Cop Who Took On Flock

What a nice line of questioning by the local Councillor of the Flock corporate representative. Fair and balanced. With a clear and reasonable take on the whole situation at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXqM0L4POZQ

#Flock #USpol #Surveillance

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“'It’s really alarming the number of loopholes that law enforcement, at both the local and federal levels, have to gain access to license plate reader data,' - Will Owen, S․T․O․P, Communication Director․

Read full story…”

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As #Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared #camera network loses value

Over the past few months, a spate of Wisconsin towns and cities have withdrawn from #Flock deals over #privacy and #trust concerns. As they did so, another issue revealed itself: With each city that leaves, the Flock network becomes less useful to the cities that remain. And cities are starting to notice.
#alpr #privacy #surveillance #tracking

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/as-wisconsin-cities-flee-flock-its-shared-camera-network-loses-value/

404 Media: The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts. “Government surveillance centers are monitoring viral anti-Flock Instagram posts, warning local police about upcoming DeFlock events including one scheduled to start next week, and have told cops to ‘increase patrols around ALPR [automatic license plate readers]’ as backlash to Flock grows, according to government […]

RE: https://mast.linuxgamecast.com/@Jill_linuxgirl/117111616255054388

Adding Friction to Surveillanc

Great coverage of Flock Cameras—it's good to see surveillance creep getting attention. While digital privacy measures are essential, I think physical friction is an underrated complement.

I've adopted what I call the "Protection Approach": masks, sunglasses, and hats. Originally a pandemic habit, I realized they serve double duty:

Health + Privacy
- 😷 Mask reduce respiratory infections and make facial recognition much harder
- 😎 Sunglasses protect eyes and degrade camera identification
- 👒 Hat protect from sun shin and reduce surveillance angles

No single measure is perfect, but making visual identification difficult enough to be costly for surveillance systems genuinely reduces their effectiveness. It's friction that matters.

Of course, this complements—never replaces—digital privacy tools and collective action for policy change. But it's an accessible, immediate step anyone can take.

I dress for privacy 🛡️
#IDressForPrivacy #surveillance #FlockCameras

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“A new Mother Jones article examines how Homeland Security agents reportedly tracked peaceful ICE protesters’ cars, identities, and whereabouts—without alleging any wrongdoing․ An important read on surveillance and First…”

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New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at #MSG

https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-city-lawmakers-push-to-ban-the-scan-at-msg/

#NYC #privacy #surveillance #FRT #FacialRecognition

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“Research Director Eleni Manis spoke with ABC 33/40: 'There is no federal legislation over automated license plate readers, Flock or otherwise․'

Read more:
abc3340․com/news/local/flock-camera-misuse-cases-renew-debate-o…”

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Asked to upload a photo for age verification and want to make a statement?

This classic rearranged mannequin is not likely to work - although you never know - but will make for some nice data points.

#data #ageverification #face #surveillance

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The bottom part of a naked vintage mannequin viewed from behind. A face mask was placed on top of the section, i.e. the hip, looking backwards, hence the slightly insulting name butt face. On the lower left is part of the back of a chair. In the background is a large early 1900s mantle.

#Flock says its new tool will help identify #police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/flock-says-its-new-tool-will-help-identify-police-abuse-but-hasnt-explained-how-it-works/

#privacy #surveillance #stalking #ALPR

#Germany plans to give intelligence services sweeping new powers

https://www.euractiv.com/news/germany-plans-to-give-intelligence-services-sweeping-new-powers/

#privacy #surveillance

Who’s #Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out

It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing #ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large #advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called #DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this #adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.

#surveillance #privacy

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/whos-tracking-you-use-this-new-service-to-find-out/

#CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-workers-allegedly-used-government-databases-to-spy-on-exes-crushes-and-colleagues/

#privacy #surveillance #stalking

It took them 4 years to require cops to need a reason to use it?

Flock tries to make its cameras harder for cops to misuse - Engadget

https://www.engadget.com/2236415/flock-tries-to-make-its-cameras-harder-for-cops-to-misuse/

#Flock #Cameras #Cops #ACAB #Security #Surveillance #Tech

Wired: "...In one case, a CBP officer allegedly used government databases to contact a flight attendant. In another, an officer was accused of pulling information from trusted-traveler applications to ask people out. Other CBP employees were accused of providing border-crossing data to someone involved in a “heated divorce.” And yet another DHS employee allegedly used controversial ad-tech-derived location data to track several coworkers’ cell phones..."

#stalking #bigbrother #privacy #surveillance

Wired: CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones.

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-workers-allegedly-used-government-databases-to-spy-on-exes-crushes-and-colleagues/

#bigbrother #privacy #surveillance #stalking

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CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones.

#US Manufactured Crimes and Spied on Peaceful #Protesters During #Minneapolis Metro Surge, New Court Filing Reveals

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 14, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS -- "While #Dakotas were praying at a #SacredSpring for those held in federal detention at the #WhippleBuilding in Minneapolis -- the U.S. government was spying on, and stalking, the #WhippleWatchers, a new court document reveals.

"The government is refusing to release all of its documents on its surveillance of those watching the Whipple building. The Whipple building is on the site of a former concentration camp, where Dakota and Ho Chunk were imprisoned, suffered and died.

" 'The government admits withholding at least five #ProjectWhippleShield #ROIs (Reports of Investigation) from the initial disclosures,' the court filing states.

"In the current case, the court document for discovery filed yesterday describes how the U.S. government spied on and tracked peaceful protesters during the #resistance to #OperationMetroSurge.

"Not only were peaceful protesters spied on, #stalked and #doxxed, but the #surveillance was carried out to #ManufactureCrimes when none existed, states the court document filed by a defense attorney for one of the government's targets."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/08/us-manufactured-crimes-and-spied-on.html

#Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #UnionBusting #SilencingDissent
#CriminalizingDissent #DefundICE #DefundDHS #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

The Government is Monitoring Anti- #Flock #TikTok and #Instagram Accounts

https://www.404media.co/the-government-is-monitoring-anti-flock-tiktok-and-instagram-accounts/

#privacy #surveillance #FreeSpeech #ALPR #police

“Surveillance technology startup Flock announced a series of new policies and tools on Thursday, claiming they will help curb abuse of its automated license plate camera reader systems and help keep its law enforcement customers accountable.

Flock is now recommending police departments retain data for seven days rather than the previous 30 days. Along with this change, the company introduced what it calls “Evidence Mode,” which can be turned on when customers need to retain data for longer periods in “exceptional cases” and requires a specific case number. Customers will also now be able to set limits on the data they share with other customers based on the type of offense that’s under investigation.

The company also highlighted a tool called “Audit Assistance” as one of the key changes. Flock launched the tool in April. Since then, Flock said “more than one-third” of its customers have turned it on, and the startup is now requiring all customers to enable it by the end of the year.

Flock said Audit Assistance “detects abnormal activity and flags it for Administrator review,” according to the blog post released Thursday.”

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/flock-says-its-new-tool-will-help-identify-police-abuse-but-hasnt-explained-how-it-works

#USA #Flock #Surveillance #PoliceState

“If you receive a notification like this, take it seriously. We’ve explained before what happens when someone gets a notification saying they’ve been targeted. It may not mean that you have been successfully hacked, but you should still take immediate steps to protect your device and data.

The push notification also opens up advice on who to reach out to for help. You will also be advised to switch on Lockdown Mode, a security feature that makes it far more difficult for spyware attacks to succeed. According to Apple, it has yet to see a case where someone’s device was hacked while Lockdown Mode was enabled.

Spyware attacks are generally rare, but the proliferation of the surveillance technology in recent years has allowed them to be abused by governments and deployed against critics, including members of civil society.“

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/if-apple-sends-you-a-push-notification-alerting-you-to-a-spyware-attack-take-it-seriously

#CyberSecurity #Apple #iPhone #iOS #Spyware #Surveillance

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a professor at the George Washington University Law School whose scholarship has focused on #policing, #BigData #surveillance & the #FourthAmendment, said Thursday’s shifts were “better than the opposite” but called for further scrutiny of the #technology in the form of “sustained democratic engagement with the rules & judicial checks on access at a minimum.”

#Flock #law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #tech #AbuseOfPower #deflock

#Flock CEO Garrett Langley said many product changes will make what were once optional guardrails mandatory for its users to implement by Jan 1.

Among them∶ #LawEnforcement customers will have to implement an audit tool intended to flag abnormal search behavior. When the system detects abnormal behavior, the user would be locked out pending an internal review, the company said in a description of the changes provided ahead of Thursday’s announcement.

#law #privacy #immigration #surveillance

#Flock Safety, the #surveillance #technology company increasingly under scrutiny from lawmakers from both parties, civil liberties advocates & citizens across the #US, announced Thursday that it is making changes to its platform intended to quell #privacy concerns & address documented abuses of its system by some members of #LawEnforcement.

#law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #AbuseOfPower #deflock
https://apnews.com/article/flock-license-plate-cameras-surveillance-deflock-2a93bc075e2f7ffcca9e04a35d75a3fe?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link

"...At one anti-ICE event at a church, agents documented the license plate information of attendees, the records showed. When two agents were approached by a man who “asked if they were ICE”, the agent responded, falsely, that they were not...." #surveillance #bigbrother #privacy #uspol

The Guardian: US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal

"...Newly disclosed records reveal the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations and on protesters as part of a vast operation into groups opposing the immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year...."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters

#USpol #bigbrother #surveillance

Per the Guardian: "..One investigative record showed DHS used administrative subpoenas to obtain “wire transfers from various financial institutions to and from” SEIU, one of the largest unions in the US. Investigators also requested that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provide financial data from the Communications Workers of America, an international union, the records showed....DHS further obtained financial records related to the Sunrise Movement, a national non-profit focused on the climate crisis."

#unions #uspol #bigbrother #surveillance #climate #climateemergency

“The modern vehicle is infused with digital technology at every point. The features present in vehicles available in the United States pale in comparison to what a driver can buy in China today, and those features are quickly going global. Increasingly, cars are getting compared to smartphones, prompting fears they’ll also be upgraded much more regularly than people currently replace their vehicles. If electric vehicles are supposed to be an environmental savior, such rapid refreshing would further erode any climate benefit.

This is what all the big promises have amounted to for most people: cars that are more and more expensive, devoid of physical controls which makes vehicles less safe, and constantly monitoring everything you do with the option for manufacturers to change whatever they want in your vehicle, including sticking a Spider-Man ad in front of you and presenting it as a fun “surprise.””

https://disconnect.blog/bmws-in-car-spider-man-ad-is-a-warning-sign/

#BMW #EVs #Surveillance #Adtech #AdTracking

#BTP expands Live #FacialRecognition ( #LFR ) trial into #LondonUnderground stations

https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-into-london-underground-stations/

#UK #London #FRT #privacy #surveillance

XBox Rolling Out Age Verification for Australian Gamers

Age verification continues to spread. This time, Australians are going to see it for their XBox gaming.

https://www.freezenet.ca/xbox-rolling-out-age-verification-for-australian-gamers/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Australia #console #gaming #store #surveillance #XBox

Well worth a listen/read! : https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/146/

"People sometimes say to me when we’re talking about government surveillance that they’ve got nothing to hide and they aren’t worried about it. Well, what those people are really saying is that they’re always going to comply with the government no matter what. They’re never going to have dissenting views or protest.."

And they're not only aligning with the current government, but with all future governments.

#privacy #surveillance

This Tool Unmasks the Shadowy World of #Ads that Track Your #Location

The #advertising industry is simultaneously everywhere and incredibly difficult to investigate. Ads can power all sorts of surveillance, from the relatively mundane like inferring someone’s age or gender, right up to harvesting their precise location data and selling this to the government. But researching that omnipresent #surveillance is, ironically, an uphill struggle because the relevant data is spread across the web, nestled in obscure files that most people never look at or even know to look for, and can’t be searched all at once.

A new #research tool called #DecryptAds hopes to change that by bringing together a massive corpus of data. It can show what advertising brokers are operating on a particular website, and, more importantly, many other places those same brokers are operating.
#privacy

https://www.404media.co/this-tool-unmasks-the-shadowy-world-of-ads-that-track-your-location/

#ICE to Pay #LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to #Palantir

https://www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-lexisnexis-millions-for-data-to-feed-to-palantir/

#surveillance #privacy #politics

Are you not surveilled enough, mate? BTP to roll out facial recognition trials at London Underground stations.

I doubt this will have a deterrent effect, as patrols are probably more effective, but hey "if you've got nothing to hide", right? /s

https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-into-london-underground-stations/

#Surveillance #Privacy #AntiMassSurveillance #FacialRecognition

"BTP expands Live Facial Recognition (LFR) trial into London Underground stations" - https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-into-london-underground-stations/
#london #travel #surveillance #police

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“Flock cameras are everywhere, and police are using them for all the wrong reasons․

Mother Jones reports that dozens of cops have been fired for stalking exes, partners and romantic interests with the surveillance tech…”

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Gig review: Massive Attack at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 11th August, 2026

Anyone who knows me well knows how much I love Massive Attack.

Not only is their music timeless and ageless, they have left an imprint on the souls and hearts of so many people. Mezzanine is their seminal album of 1998 that contained the worldwide hit song that most people will recognise – Teardrop.

https://youtu.be/u7K72X4eo_s?si=s7pzy1P0AccYkafT

Who is Massive Attack?

Before the gig I went to get my hair done and the Zoomer lass doing my hair had no idea who Massive Attack was. This was a rude awakening that such a band is no longer well-known and it also made me feel old (which is a relatively new feeling and one I am still grappling with). Asking her what music she liked and she told me country music and Ed Sheeran. This was a level of deep cringe I wasn’t prepared for, but I tried to not show it in my face.

If you don’t know who Massive Attack is then this is a great introduction into why they are completely unique. Their music is an iconoclastic blend of dark Dub, Reggae, Hip-hop and Ambient – in other words – Trip-hop. When I was young, I loved a lot of the Trip-hop, Rap, Techno, Trance, House and Drum & Bass and these tastes continue even now.

https://youtu.be/Owog55voMcs?si=20n5V9PMXHeSYGSZ

Anyway about the gig itself. It was bewitching and hypnotic and did not disappoint at all. It was just as sonically satisfying as their albums Blue Lines, Protection and Mezzanine are, but with added layers of complexity to the intensity of the music. The visual storytelling of the live experience was a powerful addition to their already complex, velvety and haunting sound.

The visual display was not simply a background jumble of randomness but was the real centrepiece. Visual storytelling and messaging were spot-on in capturing the Zeitgeist of our muddled and deeply troubling times.

Whenever an artist delivers a political message at a concert, I am unclear of the cut-through with other people. I wonder if they feel it as profoundly as I do?

Massive Attack’s political messaging is strongly anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-Zionist stance. They have a pro creativity and a brutal pro-reality stance instead. This adds texture and depth to their mesmeric iconic music.

On looking out at the vast sea of people in Melbourne, I wondered do they care or are they indifferent to Massive Attack’s political provocations? Are they happy to simply go to an event, not think and go home?

With Massive Attack this was never going to be an option. This is music to make every single person there stop and think deeply about their extremely vulnerable position in our emerging, very real and quite frankly terrifying world of hyper-surveillance, hyper-corporatisation, militarised violence and hyper-concentrated media landscape. Yes – all of those fucked up topics that nobody ever wants to discuss, not in polite company and certainly not in the media.

Shoring up a collective response to the level of power-grabbing, corruption and fuckery is also hard for many face (grown lazy as we are on a Western diet of wealth and ease combined with fear) to stomach: underground resistance and revolt.

Before today, I don’t think anyone has accurately summarised the future we all stand to inherit as a result of the increased AI corporatisation, AI militarisation and AI surveillance – death, chaos and destruction, there I fucken said it! Terrifying innit!

Massive Attack and their awesome audiovisual storytelling have managed to encapsulate all of the above and infuse the whole experience with a disturbing, signal-smashing, restless energy. Bringing terror, awe, beauty and wonder into a live show is no small feat. And so it was a true masterpiece of immersive art.

When listening to a Massive Attack album, especially Mezzanine, one gets the sense of entering through a mirror darkly, into a hyper-real, often brutal reality of the world.

In saying how truly amazing it was, I feel so sorry for those who couldn’t get a ticket. This amount of algorithmic gymnastics my partner had to go through to get the tickets was an absolute miracle.

The big irony: the event was a algorithmically complex and hyper-surveilled

There is an enormous irony to this event that I would like to unpack for you. Massive Attack’s gig showcased the terror of surveillance, as the detailed faces of people in the crowd were tracked and projected live onto the big screen.

The venue, Rod Laver Arena employs extremely detailed and intricate facial recognition and data services courtesy of Palantir (yes those c*nts, the global techno-military complex used quietly and precisely to kill children in Gaza and elsewhere).

Back to cosy little Australia – this facial recognition software captures every pimple and pore on the faces of music-lovers who come to the event.

This, Rod Laver Arena claim in their privacy policy is used and then disgarded if someone is not on their banned list. However, there is no auditing or ability to tell whether or not this is actually the case.

There is a clause in the Privacy Policy about ‘obtaining sensitive information’: you know like someone’s racial or ethnic identity, political leanings, sexual preference, and whatever else they fucken feel like.

If you’re not outraged about it, then you obviously don’t understand the gravity of that sort of omnipresent power yet. A true Orwellian nightmare I am sorry to say. However the fact still remains, what is to be done to stop it?

If people are surveilled to that degree by Palantir and other shadowy “security” organisations, then it effectively weakens and atomises resistance movements before they even begin.

Media concentration effectively negates and paints those who resist as being ‘trouble-makers’ or ‘anarchists’ – as though a just, private, dignified, healthy and environmentally abundant world is a crazy thing for human beings to need and want!

Anyway I’ve gone really deep on this one, but this is effectively a brain dump of my deepest concerns for the future we all face, masterfully captured into a two hour long sonic journey by Massive Attack.

Like the good little consumer I am, I bought two overpriced Massive Attack T-shirts. I had my face and body analysed for my ethnicity, age, class, gender, political views, union affiliations.

I submitted to the unknowable, all-knowing algorithms of the ether to be ranked as a ‘material risk to civilisation’ or as ‘placid, peaceable human livestock’. I’m still not sure where I fit on that spectrum.

Encircled by facial recognition surveillance, I thanked myself silently that I didn’t wear my Keffiyeh to the gig and I felt a little bit ashamed that I didn’t wear it proudly at the same time.

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Massive attack - messaging

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Extremely invasive Privacy Policy at Melbourne Park

“As we saw in Minneapolis, guard labor – be it mass surveillance, robocops or ICE chuds – is itself destabilizing. Police states make the people who live in them want to overthrow the state, requiring yet more cops, creating more partisans for tearing the whole thing down.

In theory, the orifice class could decide to stop stealing, cheating and maiming. The problem is that for every plute who realizes that the cheapest way to keep the guillotines off his lawn is to play fair, there are three more who lack the executive function to stop cheating. That means that you might as well keep on cheating, since the instability – and the guard labor bills – are coming no matter what.

In the tale of the "Tragedy of the Commons," a common pasture is grazed to dust by shepherds who each understand that if they don't graze their flock until everything is gone, some other shepherd will do so. The original "Tragedy of the Commons" paper was a racist hoax perpetrated by an academic fraud who wanted to make the case for the expulsion of black and Brown people from America and their mass extermination abroad:
(…)
In reality, commons need not be tragic and many of our most important resources have been managed as commons for hundreds of years:
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But when it comes to the commons that is "a stable society," the orifice class is caught in an inescapable tragedy, certain of the knowledge that if they don't cheat us, the next American aristo will. Thus the demand for guard labor continues to mount…as does the demand for guillotines.”

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/tragedy-of-the-commoners/

#USA #Inequality #Capitalism #PoliceState #Surveillance #Commons #TragedyOfTheCommons

The Mayor Who Said 'No' When #Flock Came to Town

https://www.404media.co/the-mayor-who-said-no-when-flock-came-to-town/

#privacy #surveillance #ALPR #Oklahoma

How Accurate Are #Flock's AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras?

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/09/230247/how-accurate-are-flocks-ai-powered-license-reading-cameras

#AI #ALPR #privacy #surveillance

#Littleton claims #Flock reactivated its cameras without notifying the town

https://www.lowellsun.com/2026/07/31/littleton-claims-flock-reactivated-its-cameras-without-notifying-the-town/

#privacy #surveillance #ALPR

👁️ BTP expands Live Facial Recognition (LFR) trial into London Underground stations | British Transport Police

｢ The first deployment in a TfL station will take place at Victoria Underground station on Tuesday 11 August. It will then rotate between deployments at Underground and Network Rail stations as the trial – which has now been extended to November – continues ｣

https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-into-london-underground-stations/

#facialrecognition #ai #uk #privacy #surveillance

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“Facial recognition at Madison Square Garden is back in the spotlight․

POLITICO highlights STOP-supported legislation that would ban companies from using facial recognition and other biometric technologies to surveil pe…”

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“Bill Swearingen has spent the past year running largely the same test, over and over again. The goal was to produce a computer-generated pattern that could block the surveillance cameras lining America’s streets from detecting it.

Some 31 million tests later, Swearingen says he can now produce patterns on demand that, when applied to clothing and objects, prevent some of the most commonly deployed license plate readers and surveillance cameras from detecting whatever the pattern covers, from people to vehicles.

His project, which he calls noRecognition, allows people to escape the automatic detection and algorithmic surveillance used across the U.S. and beyond.”

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/this-adversarial-pattern-can-prevent-surveillance-cameras-from-detecting-you/

#Surveillance #AdversarialPattern #noRecognition #PoliceState

“The first time that “NoMark” tried to knock out a Flock camera feed, he waited an hour for the perfect moment – pacing in and out of bushes that towered over him, a few feet behind a pole holding up the device.

“I was just so nervous,” he said.

NoMark, as he’s known on Instagram, had already gained an online following of hundreds of thousands for posting videos of himself wearing a black mask and taking on small-time vigilante missions: breaking up fights outside a bar and breaking into a refinery he believed was “polluting the city real bad”. The Minnesota Star Tribune dubbed him “Minneapolis’ Batman”. He spoke to the Guardian under condition of anonymity to discuss potentially illegal acts.

On this June night, he set his sights on a new target: automated license plate readers (ALPRs) made by the US company Flock Safety.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/flock-surveillance-cameras

#USA #Surveillance #Flock #ALPRs #PoliceState

This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent #surveillance cameras from detecting you

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/this-adversarial-pattern-can-prevent-surveillance-cameras-from-detecting-you/

#privacy #noRecognition #fashion

#Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/08/059204/flock-camera-vandalism-continues-around-america-while-100-communities-reject-alprs

#ALPR #privacy #surveillance #police

More #Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing #Flock Camera Systems

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/08/0453229/more-police-officers-fired-investigated-or-arrested-for-misusing-flock-camera-systems

#surveillance #privacy #ALPR

Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By #Police After Mistaken #Flock Alert - Twice

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/08/042259/woman-pulled-from-car-at-gunpoint-by-police-after-mistaken-flock-alert---twice

#surveillance #privacy #ALPR

Feels every day #Surveillance #FOSS #CorporateSurveillance #Resist

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The Alone at a Party meme, reading: They don't even know they're enabling fascism and the data broker ecosystem by using proprietary apps

They see you when you're speaking, they know when you take a shit 🎶

Canadian workers speak out against growing screen time surveillance

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/td-bank-bell-workplace-screentime-monitoring-9.7296526

#Surveillance #CDNPoli #Banking #Capitalism #SurveillanceCapitalism #Resist

🔍 Richmond, VA has 99 Flock license plate readers tracking every car that passes. Police won't say where they are, and they've denied every records request asking how they're used.

A Richmond Times-Dispatch investigation found two known violations of state law: an ATF analyst used the system for immigration enforcement, and a police sergeant illegally shared data with the FBI. Prosecutors declined to bring charges.

When the RTD filed a FOIA request for the audit logs police say prove they follow the rules -- denied again. Meanwhile, text messages show the mayor telling the police chief to "saturate the public narrative with feel good Flock stories."

The police department's response? "The Richmond Police Department remains committed to transparency."

Read more:
https://richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/article_b9ebbf29-e136-4498-ac9e-d68b6cd96ffc.html
https://richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/article_d6fd4ac3-2796-4dae-a08d-e361fcf24b4c.html
https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_d54cf37b-72f3-44ab-9da9-225b842c7385.html

#surveillance #privacy #Virginia

Flock is doomed.

‘Work boots and Subarus’: Local officials say the backlash against Flock cameras is becoming bipartisan
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/09/flock-cameras-backlash-cancellations-01026242

#Flock #Surveillance #USPol