"The open source project DeFlock is mapping license plate surveillance cameras all over the world."

"On his drive to move from Washington state to Huntsville, Alabama, Will Freeman began noticing lots of cameras."

"Once I started getting into the South, I saw a ton of these black poles with a creepy looking camera and a solar panel on top. I took a picture of it and ran it through Google, and it brought me to the Flock website. And then I knew like, 'Oh, that's a license plate reader.' I started seeing them all over the place and realized that they were for the police."

"Flock is one of the largest vendors of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) in the country. The company markets itself as having the goal to fully 'eliminate crime' with the use of ALPRs and other connected surveillance cameras."

"And so he made a map, and called it DeFlock. DeFlock runs on Open Street Map, an open source, editable mapping software."

The open source project DeFlock is mapping license plate surveillance cameras all over the world

#solidstatelife #ai #computervision #alprs #surveillance

The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World

DeFlock has mapped the locations of more than a thousand ALPRs around the United States and thousands more around the world.

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

What do we want to see?

Virkkunen must protect the integrity of EU digital communication tools like #encryption.

We hope to see protections for the open internet & net neutrality, action toward #climatejustice, & against #surveillance ads, digital exclusion & technosolutionism.

#Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

https://www.surveillancewatch.io/

Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

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#microsoft #apple #macos #iphone #google #android #surveillance #tracking #software #fail #meme #linux #freedom #nerd #humor #Criticism #problem #os #bigbrother #privacy

I used to think Google were evil but smart.

I no longer think they’re smart.

#Google #search #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming #AI #LLM #evil #notSmart

🛑 Chat Control must be stopped! 🛑

We sat down with @echo_pbreyer MEP to discuss the details of this dangerous piece of legislation being pushed by the EU Council.
👉 https://youtu.be/wSEI-dg3Hpo

Get loud and let the EU Council know that we will not accept mass #surveillance. ✊

The W3C – the standards body of surveillance capitalism – on privacy.

If you had any “privacy principles” to speak of, what would Adobe, Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Bloomberg, Google, Huawei, IAB, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, Bilibili, SoftBank, Tencent, Yahoo!, Zoom, etc., be doing on your members list?

#privacyWashing #PR #w3c #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #BigWeb #corporatocracy https://w3c.social/@w3c/112060072560559832