Privacy, encryption vs. Surveillance state

I hope this hasn't already been posted.

I Built My Own Flock Camera. Then Police Came to My Door.

Oct 7, 2026
I built a camera to watch police cars. Then two officers showed up at my front door. That sent me deeper into Flock, surveillance, and what is happening in my own neighborhood.

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RESOURCES MENTIONED
- Plate Privacy Project by IJ - records requests and local action: https://plateprivacy.com/
- DeFlock - camera map: https://deflock.org/
-Have I Been Flocked - available search audit logs: https://haveibeenflocked.com/

SOURCES
- https://gist.github.com/AtotheY/0060f...

SPECIAL THANKS
Thank you to everyone who gave their time and helped me understand this story:
- Jonathan Coffman - Pflugerville City Council
- Sue Wilson - Richmond City Council https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/directo...
- Kade Crockford - ACLU of Massachusetts https://www.aclu.org/bios/kade-crockford
- Robert Frommer - Institute for Justice https://ij.org/staff/rfrommer/
- Lisa Femia - Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/about/staff/eliza...
- Chris Parsons - Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario https://www.ipc.on.ca/en/speaker/chri...

- And everyone who stopped to speak with me on the street (even if I was wearing a fugitive outfit lmao)

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Smart devices=surveillance devicesUntil there is a sea change in market demand and manufacturers respect that customers own the device usage data, smart devices are a dumb idea. Why peeps want to pay a company to spy on them or sell their data is beyond me.


It's because they're stupid. It's like nobody gives a rats ass about being spied on, just so long as they get a cookie.

Get a load of this.

Malibu puts up speed cameras for ten days as a test, and gets 100,000 violations.

Imagine if every Flock camera turns into a ticket issuing camera.