"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

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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)}