ssroxnak@lemmy.world to

Privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 days ago

License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows

www.404media.co

cross-posted to:
technology@lemmy.world

189

License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows

www.404media.co

ssroxnak@lemmy.world to

Privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 days ago

cross-posted to:
technology@lemmy.world

Flock, which has license plate readers (LPRs) all around the country, wants police to be able to “jump from LPR to person,” according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media.

Chat

railcar@midwest.social
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
2·
24 days ago
Yeah but private enterprise didn’t. And if commercial, Leo can buy it without a warrant
- entwine413@lemm.ee
  link
  fedilink
  arrow-up
  2·
  24 days ago
  Private enterprises can just buy the data from the state in most places.

Privacy@lemmy.ml

privacy@lemmy.ml

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !privacy@lemmy.ml

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don’t promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

618 users / day
1.94K users / week
6.91K users / month
16.2K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
38.5K subscribers
2.47K Posts
58K Comments
Modlog