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We Put Flock Under Surveillance: Go Make Them Behave Differently [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W420BOqga_s
58•huvarda•2h ago

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pavel_lishin•1h ago
If you want to save yourself six minutes' of video, this is about https://alpr.watch/ and their new feature that can alert you by email if your local municipal officials are going to be discussing Flock in upcoming meetings, based on published meeting agendas.

The video also links you to a wiki with some nice counter-arguments to the standard pro-Flock arguments: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Common_Questions,_Arguments,_%...

I went ahead and signed up; I live in a pretty dense part of the US, we'll see how many alerts I get in the next year.

kotaKat•1h ago
Quiet red areas rolling over to Flock are what’s going to cause us all to lose in the end.

Another quiet little village in rural New York just signed on for 11 cameras, and it sounds like the county itself (2800 square miles(!)) is also playing around with them. The locals won’t raise the hard hitting questions - they’ll just roll over with the bullshit answers from Flock reps.

https://northcountrynow.com/stories/village-of-massena-enter...

topspin•55m ago
> Quiet red areas rolling over to Flock

What is funding all those Flock reps jetting around BFE to dazzle and kickback the boomer city managers and county commissioners of deep red littleville America? Is it the 2 cameras in Big Rapids MI or the 2425[1] cameras in Detroit metro?

The "roll over" that mattered has already been secured.

[1] https://deflock.me

formerly_proven•1h ago
Alternate parse: "we put flock(2) under surveillance: go(1) makes them behave differently"
dole•1h ago
https://deflock.me/ deserves a mention for its crowdsourcing of ALPR camera data on https://openstreetmap.org and on the site. Recording even one camera may be the only notice a resident has that Flock and ALPRs are operating in their municipality.
jwineinger•50m ago
Well, I didn't know there Flock cameras in use near me, but apparently I'm nearly surrounded and would have to take a weird route to avoid them. Some are marked as being operated by the local PD, and others are "Unknown". Thanks for the link
robszumski•11m ago
Same author talked about adversarial license plates that trick these cameras with a sequence of black blocks, discussed here in original form [1]. He is interested in breaking both the plate detection (ideal) and character recognition (good). The examples are pretty cool looking.

[1]: https://youtu.be/Pp9MwZkHiMQ?&t=1428

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We Put Flock Under Surveillance: Go Make Them Behave Differently [video]

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