Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”

blitzen@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A question to nobody in particular: would it be possible to make a license plate cover that is made out of the same material as those anti-facial recognition glasses?

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  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It’s not just license plate readers anymore. They have cameras that perform facial recognition and other identifying recognition.

    Your car is in many ways uniquely identifiable by its markings and its model that vehicle with many pictures of it and that license plate are already in a database. If you have stickers, if you have big dents or additions and changes from the base model of your vehicle than you are quite identifiable within a particular geographical area depending on the urban density.

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  • blitzen@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s YouTube video out there, the name escapes at the moment, where he figures out how to basically insert “noise” over his license plate that can lead to flock cameras not recognizing it. Fascinating stuff.

    Two big issues IMO. 1) maybe it fools cameras now, but who knows if it continues to. 2) it’s illegal to cover your plate, probably doubly with the intent to obfuscate. My solution is bike rack. “Oops, didn’t meant to cover my plate” is good plausible deniability.

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    • Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s Benn Jordan

      Also, the way they catalogue info is not just license numbers, but any unique combinations of bike racks, bumper stickers or the like. So your bike rack would make you very trackable in a way, but at least your identity would be harder to pinpoint

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• Anonymouse@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same for me. In addition to deflock.me and haveibeenflocked.com, are there any community resource sites for finding others in the same city that would be willing to start pushing on the city to cancel their contract?

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• TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My city is one of the few in my county that doesn’t have a contract with flock, but the county was nice enough to put them up around town anyway.

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  • blitzen@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is there a resource to find out who has contracts with Flock?

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    • TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d be interested to know, the reason I know my city doesn’t have it is a bunch of residents pushed for it at multiple council meetings.

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