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Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing (www.404media.co)
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Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, exposed some of the license plate cops were looking for and the reason for doing so.

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[-] artyom@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago

They're just public cameras. They're notoriously used to capture and record the locations of vehicles via their license plates but realistically they totally could flip a switch and start using them for things like facial recognition overnight.

[-] Doublenut@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

No switch to be flipped. Already used that way.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago

Source?

this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2026
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