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re: Its just a License Plate Reader

Posted on 8/11/26 at 4:38 pm to
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
21849 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 4:38 pm to
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All of you carry a device that spies on you, that police need a warrant to access your location and data it carries.



Every single one of you.


FIFY.
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
21849 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 4:45 pm to
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What Im saying is it is external surveillance on everyone passing a point as opposed to a GPS placed on a car. You could accomplish the same by posting live officers there. I believe it is distinguishable. SCOTUS could prove me wrong, but they would have to take up the case....dont believe precedent is clear enough here.


5th circuit has already said we are quickly approaching a point where the above logic becomes a dragnet, and with every new camera installed, that point gets closer. Ironically, Flocks best strategy may be to simply stop growing if it wants to survive constitutionally.
Posted by BrodyDad
Member since Dec 2025
427 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 5:11 pm to
quote:

5th circuit has already said we are quickly approaching a point where the above logic becomes a dragnet, and with every new camera installed, that point gets closer. Ironically, Flocks best strategy may be to simply stop growing if it wants to survive constitutionally.


The 5th is not SCOTUS, thank God.
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
17403 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 5:25 pm to
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There was even one instance last week where a woman was pulled over in one jurisdiction, weapons drawn at her and her family over an erroneous flock entry, and because the municipality forgot to take it down, it happened again in the neighboring jurisdiction. She's essentially been banished from travelling anywhere because of some lazy flock entry.

Data from a human’s entry into NCIC and a state’s own criminal record system is used as the basis to do a separate search on Flock.

Without Flock the same error occurs.

Weapons drawn is an administrative policy issue, not a Flock issue.
Posted by wheelr
New Iberia
Member since Jul 2012
6255 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 5:37 pm to
If it is just a license plate reader, why is it pointed at a kid's splash pad?

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1vlocm1/if_they_are_license_plate_readers_why_are_they/

Imagine supporting this
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
17403 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 5:43 pm to
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If it is just a license plate reader, why is it pointed at a kid's splash pad?

I would be curious if there has been any instances of criminal behavior happening there.

Most states have laws prohibiting convicted pedos from going within x feet of areas where children gather. Seems like we should have people monitoring whether they comply.
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
21849 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 5:45 pm to
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Without Flock the same error occurs.


One in Three Alerts Wrong: High Error Rates and Data Concerns Force Cities to Drop Flock

You really think 1 out of 3 officers can't read a license plate accurately?
This post was edited on 8/11/26 at 6:16 pm
Posted by wheelr
New Iberia
Member since Jul 2012
6255 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 5:46 pm to
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Willie Stroker


You support these?

Posted by weadjust
Member since Aug 2012
15829 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 5:47 pm to
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I would be curious if there has been any instances of criminal behavior happening there.


IF Flock only records car tags and car images. How would a flock camera pointed at a splash pad reduce crime?
Posted by LSUBoo
Knoxville, TN
Member since Mar 2006
104578 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 5:50 pm to
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Imagine supporting this


You'd have to be a real retard to support these things and how they're being used/abused.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
17900 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 7:09 pm to
Some reading

LPRs are not solely Flock, but this is fine. No worries.
quote:

ut it describes a different company’s product, not Flock. A defense contractor called Leonardo — which manufactures license-plate readers in Greensboro, North Carolina — markets a sensor called SignalTrace that scans the airwaves for the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and RFID signals your devices broadcast and links them to a passing plate as an “electronic fingerprint.


Flock and SignalTrace in bed again

More Flock and SignalTrace
ETA: Another article just posted at Techspot
quote:

Research on mobility data – records collected from people's mobile devices indicating where they went – helps explain the risk. A study in the journal Scientific Reports examined 15 months of records covering 1.5 million people. Four time-and-place points were enough to uniquely identify 95% of the people in the dataset. The study did not test SignalTrace, but it shows why repeated movement can make a supposedly anonymous record distinctive.

The Supreme Court has recognized that phone location records can reveal far more than movement. In Carpenter v. United States, the court concluded that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the record of their physical movements.
This post was edited on 8/11/26 at 7:30 pm
Posted by GeauxOCDP
Member since Jul 2015
1069 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 7:14 pm to
They listen and follow you all day on your cell phone, you dolt.
Also, if you're a dick enough to have people harassing you with plate readers, you 100% deserve the trouble you likely cause everyone else around you.
Posted by MoarKilometers
Member since Apr 2015
21480 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 7:31 pm to
quote:

All of you carry a device that spies on you.



Every single one of you.

Well that makes it ok for the government to use our tax dollars to fund another means of spying on us, that isn't currently compelled by obvious 4a issues.
Posted by magildachunks
Member since Oct 2006
36807 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 7:36 pm to
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Local politician can’t get upset about something I did and have the cops track me with my cell phone to harrass me



Yes they can
Posted by Roy Curado
Member since Jul 2021
1785 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 7:49 pm to
And why are yall complaining about the system working??? People are getting caught and punished and yall still have a problem with it?

They could cure cancer and most of you tinfoil hat wearers on this forum would find some way to link it to Epstein LOL
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
21849 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 8:23 pm to
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And why are yall complaining about the system working???


Is it? Most jurisdictions are having trouble showing it actually stops crime.
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
17403 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 9:32 pm to
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IF Flock only records car tags and car images. How would a flock camera pointed at a splash pad reduce crime?

There was another thread today featuring the Flock Condor, which is a multi directional camera to capture images of people just as our Ring doorbells do.

Apparently it’s popular for recreational facilities to use.

The thread was about it being used on a private golf course.
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
17403 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 9:43 pm to
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One in Three Alerts Wrong: High Error Rates and Data Concerns Force Cities to Drop Flock You really think 1 out of 3 officers can't read a license plate accurately?

They did. The incident in your linked article proved exactly that.

In that case the 1 in 3 were precisely because the data entered into NCIC and whatever state system California uses was entered incorrectly.

The plate reader rate was accurate. The plates matched the “authoritative source” of data - the law enforcement systems agencies have been using for decades.

It revealed the bigger problem was bad data that had nothing to do with Flock cameras. It became a problem because officers were finally attempted to make use of the data without knowing their own error rate.
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
17403 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 9:44 pm to
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You support these?

I’m looking for honest reasons not to. Help a brother out.
Posted by fightin tigers
Downtown Prairieville
Member since Mar 2008
80356 posts
Posted on 8/11/26 at 9:46 pm to
Stalin had a lot.of supporters
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