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Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They also capture your car’s make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points. These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles—regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. While these systems can be useful for tracking stolen cars or wanted individuals, they are mostly used to track the movements of innocent people.

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Cities are Replacing Flock with Axon / Motorola for their Mass Surveillance Network (cdn.social.linux.pizza)

submitted 2 months ago by CubitOom@infosec.pub to c/DeFlock@sh.itjust.works

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Flock Safety became the protested brand. Axon Enterprise now sells Outpost and Lightpost readers that livestream and feed Axon Fusus; Fleet cameras scan plates from patrol cars. Motorola Solutions bought VaaS for $445 million in 2019 and kept Vigilant Solutions and Digital Recognition Network. The vendor changes, the mass surveillance network remains.

Cameras are not the only issue with surveillance systems like these. These devices can also log Audio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and RFID and other signals your devices broadcast. Then they fuse data collected without warrants with commercial data-broker records and "AI", to create a comprehensive database of everyone surveiled, who everyone is, what that are doing, and what they "will do".

These are not just cameras or license plate readers, this is a surveillance network. It's a violation of privacy and the 4th amendment, and we should not let this happen.

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[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It should be noted that Motorola Solutions is not the company that makes Motorola phones, that part of Motorola was sold off to Google ~10 years ago and then to Lenovo who currently own what is technically known as Motorola Mobility.

Edit to add more: When Google sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo they retained most of the patents and a lot of the internal departments. For the most part Lenovo bought the manufacturing capabilities. This is why Google was able to lean into the Pixel line so fast and in all of that we ended up losing one of the coolest phone concepts ever.

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