Privacy, encryption vs. Surveillance state

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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)

 

[Joe King]

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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.

 

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ICE builds nationwide ERO intelligence layer around biometric targeting operations | Biometric Update

ICE plans a $100M-plus ERO ONE analyst network linking field offices and national centers that process biometric and biographic identity queries.

www.biometricupdate.com

$100 Million ICE “Intelligence” Program is a Domestic Secret Police Agency in the Making | ACLU

Administration that has ordered agencies to target activists and nonprofits would hire “intelligence” agents within ICE to identify “threats” and investigate “relationships”

www.aclu.org

 

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Connecticut's new restrictions on Flock cameras highlight the dearth of meaningful privacy protections

The new law restricts license plate camera data sharing and searches, but falls short of stronger privacy protections for drivers.

reason.com

 

[Joe King]

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.

 

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Cops left the force. They kept tracking people with a powerful camera network.

When Andrae Wright left his job as an investigator at the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office in 2021, he handed in his gun and badge. But he kept something powerful: his log-in credentials for Flock, a...

www.yahoo.com

 

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The Trouble with Surveillance Pricing

AI’s power to harness the vast amount of consumers’ personal data in myriad ways to make supply chains more efficient is undeniable. But it can lead to illegal price-fixing.

www.supplychainbrain.com

 

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Related

Europe's plot to end Americans' online anonymity

European regulators are pushing their domestic speech laws and surveillance onto the American internet. But there's a way to fight back.

reason.com

 

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The nonsense in Switzerland is over.

Police begin enforcing the ban on burqas in public spaces against a group of Muslim women protesting by breaking the rule at a train station.

Multiculturalism in Switzerland is over.

 

[pmbug]

Kansas City suburb Excelsior Springs bagged their Flock cameras and then discovered that the camera's infrared system was still capturing data.

 

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Institute for Justice Asks Federal Appeals Court to Make Clear that Using License Plate Readers to Track People is a Fourth Amendment Search - Institute for Justice

ARLINGTON, Va.—Today, the Institute for Justice (IJ) filed an amicus brief in United States v. Sturdivant, asking the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to […]

ij.org

We’re Asking an Appeals Court to Require a Warrant for ALPR Searches

Today, along with the ACLU, EFF filed an amicus brief in the Sixth Circuit court of appeals in United States v. Sturdivant, a case where police warrantlessly tracked a suspect’s movements using Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) data. Our brief details the vast, interconnected network of ALPRs...

www.eff.org

 

[Joe King]

Kansas City suburb Excelsior Springs bagged their Flock cameras and then discovered that the camera's infrared system was still capturing data.

Not saying anyone would, or should ever do this, but if one happened to be spray painting something near a flock camera and accidently got some overspray on the lens of said camera, it would still be able to see and take pictures?


Edited to add: asking for a friend.

 

[pmbug]

Not sure, but I'm guessing if the solar collection panel was painted, it would run out of power.

 

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About those interceptor drones (post #629)

Retail pricing for the Skylark R7 Portable AI Interceptor system starts at approximately $6,999 USD.