Every Move
You Make,
Every Breath
You Take,
I'll be
Watching You
Posted on 08/21/2026 3:35:30 PM PDT by Libloather
We have met the enemy — and it is watching us.
There’s a growing backlash against Flock cameras, the automated license plate readers that have become ubiquitous across the country.
The cameras take images of license plates and store them in a searchable database that police departments can query in the course of their investigations.
Opponents of the cameras consider them an instrument of Big Brother, who’s not only watching, but constantly recording and tracking.
Vandals have disabled and stolen the Flock cameras, and even shot them.
There’s a movement to get jurisdictions to cancel their contracts with Flock (the leading such company, but not the only one), and it’s met with some success.
Los Angeles just let its contract with Flock lapse, citing “serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues.”
There’s a reason, though, that police departments so rapidly adopted the cameras — they are an extremely useful investigative tool.
It is certainly true that the technology, like any power we give the police, can be mis-used.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Cars already are tracking you so the company can sell this information to your insurance company.
Really all spying should be illegal either from the government or big business out of an actual warrant.
If that means a company loses some money...thats fine.
I have been advised that ... legally ... a tracker placed on your vehicle without your knowledge or permission is abandoned property. You're free to remove it and dispose of it as you wish. Placing it on a government employee's vehicle, while amusing, is probably not the best way to dispose of it.
who authorized these cameras all over the country, not just in high crime areas? Who pays for them?
Anything government CAN abuse, government WILL abuse.
In the case of networked, AI enabled, persistent surveillance cameras ... the abuse is already reality.
“How long before the are used to ticket for speeding , running a redight, hurrying through a yellow light, unsafe lane change, expired tag and so forth?”
I think that is already happening.
If a drunk is going 80 mph in a 15 mph school zone I don’t have a problem with using a camera to stop that behavior.
Yep
Years ago when I was rebelling and mischievous, I would have a real problem with them. Today, as an old fart, I’m not too rebellious so if anything, setting cruise control at 5mph over is the most I do wrong. so I dont really care about these things in the least.
That is an interesting comment. How many people carry a cell phone made overseas - maybe in Red China.
How many people are absolutely certain that their cell phone is not constantly relaying information on their location to a data server?
How many people give a flip if their own cell phone is surveiling them - as long as the local elected sheriff is not using a camera to violate the rights of a bank robber racing down a federal highway.
I have said for a long time
your Cellphone 📱📱📱 is a
Personal Tracking Device
There will be NO escaping
the Surveillance Society
The problem is that the AI trackers don’t really care about criminals or illegal immigrants. They care about voters that don’t agree with their leftist ideology. That is all they care about.
I didn’t mean to imply that I trusted the government but we do still have the 1st Amendment which is supposed to protect our right to a redress of grievances with the government and we can still try to vote government officials out of office.
We do have a right to sue corporations for our grievances with them but in that case you will need to hire a team of lawyers who can compete with a team of corporate lawyers. And you can’t vote corporate employees out of their jobs.
You can turn your cell phone off, remove its battery or leave it at home.
How do you keep a Flock camera from collecting data on your vehicle?
“Rich Lowry”
Be interesting to find out which boards he sits on.
When the data is received and not needed for a warrant or other charge the data should be instantly deleted. No backups, no nothing. All over in 15 seconds or less.
China has cameras everywhere .
Let’s also talk about the driver monitoring systems being installed in new cars.
And car data sent to insurance companies
already have that in AZ
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