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 2 weeks ago
I used deflock to look for cameras around me; I CANNOT leave my city limits by car without passing by a Flock camera.
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
blitzen@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Is there a resource to find out who has contracts with Flock?
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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?
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
blitzen@lemmy.ml 2 weeks 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.
Shortstack@reddthat.com 2 weeks 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
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That guy is just the coolest person ever. Every time I hear his name its some new fucking based shit. His music as The Flashbulb is my favorite music of all time. He has unbelievable range and creativity as an artist and was one of the first people to fight against music labels going after torrenters/downloaders. He uploaded all his own torrents to a private tracker. Just an awesome fucking person who obviously just wants the best for everyone.
blitzen@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Ya, he mentioned the “identifiable” thing in the video. I’m not really how much truth is in that. Even if true, I feel better about being logged as “unidentifiable [color] [make] [model] with bike rack,” over [license plate number] which can be used to look up my name and address.
Even if his license plate trick worked under his conditions, there’s no way of knowing if it’s tricking Flock cameras or if it is, if it confines to do so with updates. And you never know if it fails, you’ll continue to think it’s working while it’s not.
Neither way is perfect, so perhaps the better solution it to assume your vehicle is always tracked and to take alternate forms of transportation when engaging in something you don’t want logged.
Anonymouse@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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?