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With our new Multi-State Insights feature, law enforcement is alerted when suspect vehicles have been detected in multiple states, helping investigators uncover networks and trends linked to major crime organizations.

It always helps, when reading this kind of blurb, to mentally replace "major crime organizations" with things like "women or trans people seeking medical care" or "environmentalists" or "people attending protests" or "union members" or "police officers' battered exes" or just "brown people going anywhere." It gives you a better idea of how the police will actually use the tool.

I'm amazed folks aren't systematically destroying ALPRs yet.

Ride bikes, do crime.

This is exactly the dystopian future all privacy advocates were warning about.

So I'm seeing a bunch of complaining about this. Anybody have any actionable suggestions on how to frustrate this intrusion?

When I was looking for a job recently, they kept coming up in the searches and even having spent time in defense, I couldn't bring myself to engage with them.

Are we in psychopass yet or are we psychopast that?

Driving while black 2: electric boogaloo

That'll all be denied and used for parallel reconstruction.

This is why I don’t install a front plate and put reflective paint over my license. Readers can’t read it now. And it’s not visible by the human eye.

I was watching random body cam footage recently and in one of the arrests they commented that the traffic stop/detention was because flock had identified unusual multi state activity. The cops had absolutely nothing else to work with but because the drivers in the group of cars didn't speak much English they were able to force illegal searches and found that they were carrying high value goods that they felt were stolen. The whole thing was a huge mess of insane 4th and 5th amendment violations.

Saved me from posting the link to deflock myself. Nice work!

I wonder if the ai will notice that the only camera i hit is the one right outside my job and nowhere else even though my town is positively flooded with them.

Would something like this hold up in court, I wonder? Could a prosecutor argue that "the algorithm said so" is enough probable cause?

Minority Report here we come...

Flock? as in sheep? is that name for a surveillance company revealing how they feel about civilians?

I feel like these cunts only watched the first half of Minority Report.

We must walk without rhythm

Even amidst all the other insane news, this stands out as a remarkable and even surprisingly bad leap forward. It's not like I consented, like when people put trackers in their car for insurance discounts. I'm literally just going out into public, and that gives a company the right to record and analyze me and my car and report me to the police? I don't even get the chance to sign up to opt-out, which even that would be fucked up? And of course the algorithms could be anything - going to gay bars, going to libraries, etc.

There is so many problems with this

These system are nowhere near ready to be used on the public. The companies and bureaucrats that allow this should be locked up for gross negligence.