I love these kinds of sites, since they're indistinguishable from honeypots. Sure, have my license plate and the information that I'm worried about being watched.
Simulacra•58m ago
Sounds like social media ;-)
RobRivera•43m ago
Lmao I got honeypotted in h.s. by one of those 'does your crush like you' astrology sites
alilikestech•38m ago
Lol I actually tried it with my plate, i hope i don't get SWATed
MangoToupe•35m ago
Who isn't worried about being watched? I am certainly not confident the government can tell their ass from their face, so anyone could be suspect.
AdmiralAsshat•33m ago
With no other identifying info, though, what can they do with a license plate number in isolation?
rogerrogerr•20m ago
Exactly - you can collect license plates numbers way easier than this. The best data they can really get is a connection to an IP address.
CamperBob2•9m ago
Sell it to the cops as belonging to "self-identified persons of interest."
pests•8m ago
Some states, like Michigan, you can request owner information (including address) by a in-person SOS visit and $15 a plate. I've always thought this should be PII and shouldn't be allowed on reddit, for example, where PII is banned. Post a driver with plate in Michigan and you may have doxxed them.
boomboomsubban•6m ago
They list their sources, if you care but don't trust them you could replicate it on your own.
onetokeoverthe•54m ago
just enter 10 license numbers.
tptacek•29m ago
Besides the obvious privacy concern: at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete.
But, give it a year or two, and you can replace this whole website with a black background and 72 point white bold text "YES".
calvinmorrison•20m ago
Flock is a private company, right. That's the whole schtick. Like, Flock can retain records indefinitely for example, they may sell those records to the government but they're a private party.
tptacek•19m ago
What's your point? To the extent they're a private company you're even less likely to get access to records from Flock ALPR cameras.
calvinmorrison•16m ago
> at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete.
They're not a public body, that was my point
user3939382•12m ago
Can’t wait for the Flock Equifax/SouthParkWereSorry-esque breach announcement any day. I should start a betting pool w my friends.
opengrass•6m ago
Have I ran out of 100,000 requests?
pilingual•3m ago
Put up billboards around metros with a license plate reader that queries this database with each passing car and announce "White Tesla Model Y XYZ-1234 You've been focked for: Inv"
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