A Public Safety Technology Ecosystem.
Cities are being sued over these cameras.
Isn’t it wonderful?
Cameras all over town monitoring everything, every move....Just to keep us safe! And many towns are now using taxpaid cash for drones so the cops are able to make sure your backyards are safe too!
Drive a plain white Chevy or Ford pickup, with New Mexico plates (no front plate).
Make sure to get the inset bumper that blocks side views.
Put spacers on the top bolts of plate, so it tilts down. Up to a 20% tilt is legal. This blocks most camera views from the top.
Paint the plate with flat clear paint, two cans worth. Then tape it off in the “Dazzle” pattern of WWI battleships. Spray on two coats of high gloss. This is invisible but stops many daytime readings unless they are right behind you.
Get a lighted backup license plate frame. Don’t worry about the camera, but wire so the infrared LEDs are “on” at all times. This also helps defeat cameras, especially at night or dusk/dawn. Two are even better.
Studies have shown that the above combo defeats the FLOK system over 95% of the time.
If you are really motivated, have big magnetic signs on the truck that you remove when desired.
All of this is legal, excepting perhaps the paint and that’s not for sure.
This is how it started in the UK. Cameras everywhere.
“I am perpetual, I keep the country clean!”
Anyone giving any stock of this as to think the Government gives two $hits about you thinks waaaayyy to highly of themselves. Truly…
And, if you believe they don’t know everything about you already should they choose to deep dive into your life….again, you think too highly of yourself to believe that or are living in a bubble of alternative reality.
I read where Portland(?) shut off these cameras because they thought that ICE might use them to track illegals.
There is a distinction between License Plate Readers (LPRs) and Traffic Cameras (TCs). The LPRs read and store license plates but have no ability to catch speeders or red light runners. The LPRs are used when law enforcement has a known license plate they are looking for (stolen vehicle, kidnapping vehicle, etc) and the system will alert law enforcement when the vehicle passes a LPR location. Used properly within a strict legal framework LPRs are a good tool for law enforcement. Traffic Cameras are another matter entirely - I hate them wholeheartedly.
Please don’t shoot the messenger but a missing license plate rebellion is overdue.
Big Brother is here, and has been for some time now.
They do that in Denver. I live well over 200 miles away and never get near a toll road (Loop 225) but started getting tickets in the mail for not paying tolls. I would call in and explain, they canceled 3 tickets. Finally a clerk looked up the photo and said, “It’s the same kind of truck and “they’ve got plate holder makes the “U” look like an “O”. I’ll add a note to your file and you shouldn’t get any more tickets.” So far so good for almost a year. Machines require oversight, just like humans.
Just went to a Christian Men’s Group meeting last night. The topic of the evening was: Cybersecurity.
“Flock” came up. It is total scummery. It is a private company that collects plate numbers (or identifies the same car due to things like bumper-sticker patterns on previously identified cars that have since hid their plates by legal means) and SELLS this data to government agencies at ALL levels and is simply a revenue stream for them. That’s all.
Local, state, and federal operations buy the data to surveil without having to go through that pesky warrant “thing” and they aren’t included in any FOIA requests that are made.
Sound fishy?
Remember when the Biden administration was trying to partner with private firms to acquire geolocation data “to take the burden off of government agencies”?
This is exactly what they were talking about doing. It was billions of dollars to bypass warrants and hide information from FOIA requests.
You can also request that your information be removed. And they will remove it, no questions asked.
But next time you drive by one of those Flock cameras, you will be back in their database.
And if you conceal your plate from cameras by putting a cover on them which is visually clear to the human eye but confuses the cameras.
But they use AI to identify cars based upon the bumperstickers and their location on your car.
Scum.
Further-they are integrated with facial recognition technology. Which is pretty powerful nowadays.
Our police cars are equipped with license plate readers. They will know you have car insurance.
If they have license plate readers in Wichita, they’ll discover that most tags are out of state. Maybe the state will decide that “hey maybe we should be more competitive with the other states in what it costs to tag here”.
I was thinking about having cameras outside of my house, but I did not want to offend anyone.
If not for them, street crime would be minuscule.