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DeFlock.me, a website fighting against automated license plate readers, received a cease-and-desist from one of the most notorious surveillance companies. Of course, EFF has the creator's back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/anti-surveillance-mapmaker-refuses-flock-safetys-cease-and-desist-demand
Anti-Surveillance Mapmaker Refuses Flock Safety's Cease and Desist Demand

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...

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Feb 26, 2025 at 6:28pmWeb
Show threadAndreas KFeb 26, 2025

@eff Funny, the data in the screenshot at

https://github.com/FoggedLens/alprleaks/blob/master/docs/csv.png

suggests that Motorola ALPRs at least have a problem of detecting the colour of the cars correctly, row 4, that Lexus RX looks very non-black to me.

alprleaks/docs/csv.png at master · FoggedLens/alprleaks

Log ALPR data using a Motorola vulnerability. Contribute to FoggedLens/alprleaks development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadDopes The FrogmanFeb 26, 2025
@eff anything that is being promoted by law enforcement is probably bad for civilians.
Show threadDoug GrinbergsFeb 27, 2025
@eff
"#EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance project has identified more than 1,700 agencies using #ALPRs, #DeFlock has mapped out more than 16,000 individual camera locations, more than a third of which are Flock Safety devices."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/anti-surveillance-mapmaker-refuses-flock-safetys-cease-and-desist-demand
Flock Safety Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety
#FlockSafety #AtlasOfSurveillance #surveillance #OpenStreetMap #OSM
Anti-Surveillance Mapmaker Refuses Flock Safety's Cease and Desist Demand

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...

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