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Title: Nearly 3 million searches ran through New Hanover's license-plate cameras in 16 months — and the names were redacted
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Title: Nearly 3 million searches ran through New Hanover's license-plate cameras in 16 months — and the names were redacted

> If you drive in Wilmington, your car is being photographed and logged by Flock cameras around the city and county. I pulled the Sheriff's Office's own audit records through a public-records request: the county's camera network was searched about 3 million times in ~16 months, and the name of every searching agency and officer was blacked out.

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> I went through the comments on a bunch of local posts about this too — opinions are all over the map, and I tried to lay out both sides honestly (some folks point to stolen cars being recovered; a lot more are uneasy about the scale and the lack of a warrant).

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> Full disclosure: I'm part of DeFlockILM, a local group on this. Records and write-up here if you want to check my math. Curious what people here actually think — have you noticed how many of these are up now?

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u/Global_Honey7289 — 8 days ago
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No US State is Safe From Flock's Mass Surveillance

The closest city to me is 8 square miles and has 24 cameras.

That's 3 cameras per square mile.

I don't see many people talk about this part ... Not only is it obviously a HUGE infringement on our privacy but let's talk about the sheer amount of data 24 cameras in 1 city is constantly capturing, analyzing, and "storing for 30 days". I know it's stored through AWS (cloud) ... But still. WHEN IS IT ENOUGH?

I already deleted so many apps because I was tired of CONSTANTLY feeling farmed for data. They know because they want to trade and sell my likes, dislikes, what grabs my attention, what I spend money on... And NOW they also know the routes I take every single day. I see enough cameras each day that if you pooled the data together there is a screenshot with a time and date of my face and or license place EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK. YOU COULD FIGURE OUT NOT ONLY EXACTLY WHERE I AM, BUT WHERE I WILL MOST-LIKELY BE EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE WEEK.

Even the "middle of nowhere" states aren't safe ... No offense if you live in a middle of no where place... But you're telling me North Dakota is flocked? Montana is flocked?

Sigh. It would be a shame if we all got way too rowdy for the celebration of 250yrs of America.... A real shame.

u/Global_Honey7289 — 11 days ago
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Flock Camera Poles Embedded in Concrete Bypass Crash Testing While Tracking Vehicles at Scale

Flock cameras read plates in real time from poles. This enables scale tracking, but poles are embedded in concrete instead of Texas A&M crash-tested slip plates.

Normal driving builds persistent profiles linking vehicles to locations over time. The result is data that follows individuals without easy opt out.

The system spreads via easy contracts but hides installation flaws like concrete embedding. Opaque decisions make misuse and safety bypasses hard to detect or audit.

Once active this enables surveillance networks while introducing crash risks from non-compliant poles, leaving people with little recourse to challenge tracking or demand safety fixes.

u/1984isnoww — 13 days ago