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.
Illinois allows LPRs. Earlier this year, the state informed those jurisdictions that have them to stop instant access for out of state authorities.
I agree with you in principle and despise these cameras, but there is no expectation of privacy in public places.