- cross-posted to:
- pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
- cross-posted to:
- pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, exposed some of the license plate cops were looking for and the reason for doing so.
Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, exposed some of the license plate cops were looking for and the reason for doing so.
On top of what everyone else saod, FLOCK can track your vehicle as you cross several plus states. I would say 90% if not more highways and freeways have them across the US.
Cool tool for stopping real crininals, bad tool on a civil rights side.
People don’t understand “real” criminal in deeply intertwined with regular people and regular cops and politicians. Most “regular” naive people think of criminals as some mythical thing but they are everywhere. It’s almost as if the “straight” legal life is mirrored 1 to 1 with the dark side. And that part of maintaining the “legal” side is to market that the dark side is a myth, even though is there, part of the “legal” sides politics, economy, and culture.
This is basically what happened when people whine about the authority only take action when crime are commited. So now everyone are being watched in every corner.
Cool? Arguable. Useful? Not in practice.