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Electronic Frontier Foundation

@eff@mastodon.social 4 hours ago

Police in many cases are using Flock ALPR cameras to search not for cars, but for people. “Unfortunately, this ability to search cameras as though doing a search engine inquiry is increasingly common for surveillance cameras,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @404mediaco.
https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/

How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars

Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 2 hours ago

@eff @404mediaco

I am so sick and tired of the metastasizing spread of big brother panopticon

Flock and ring surveillance must be dismantled down

@jakalopes@mas.to 2 hours ago

@eff flock is pretty obviously used to track people and not cars because there's one right in the middle of my university, not even near the road

@tillmanreuter@ecoevo.social 3 hours ago

@eff “non caucasian”