Police: "You’d better not be covering your license plate to obstruct our cameras from reading it." Also police: 📍 Lake County, Indiana

A military expert says ALPR systems like Flock and Axon are the same as military systems they used against foreign enemies. Pattern-of-life analysis was how they targeted and killed the enemy. And now they are pointing these killing systems at we the people. "I swore an oath to the Constitution of the United States. That oath did not end just because I took off my uniform. That is why I traveled to these chambers -because I have used a comparable system against American enemies and I know what it's capable of, and I can see the danger of pointing the system at the American people."

Sen. @HawleyMO nails the exact concern with these cameras. They are going up outside gun ranges and gun stores. You can guess why gun owners are nervous. These cameras log when you got there, how long you stayed, whose truck was parked next to yours, and what your bumper stickers say about your politics. All of it dumped into a database that keeps growing. A registry, by any other name.

This is still the United States of America. It shouldn't be that when you walk out your door in the morning, you just have to agree in assent and accept the fact that you're going to be on a Flock camera morning, noon and night

The CEOs of Flock Safety, Axon, Motorola Solutions, and Verkada declined to testify today

BREAKING: 5 current & former Indianapolis police officers charged with fraud & misconduct for allegedly misusing Flock surveillance technology.

The Constitution is as valuable and as valid today as it was when it was written. Flock cameras don’t supersede liberty

Senate scrutiny of Flock is warranted — license plate readers with no warrant requirement and rampant error rates are a civil liberties problem, full stop. This isn't partisan. Privacy protections need to be baked into the legislation, not left as optional "guardrails" companies can walk back. #Privacy #Surveillance

This bullshit ...

Sen. DURBIN: For the Flock CEO, obviously they are nervous about being on camera. But, I wish they would have joined us today. It would be interesting to hear their explanation.

Flock Safety has a message for the public, and it’s not good.

The surveillance state is HERE. Flock cameras. Government-mandated “kill switches” in new cars. Warrantless surveillance under FISA. A potential Central Bank Digital Currency. America must wake up before it is too late.

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STOP what you're doing and let's HELP THIS KID by MAKING NOISE. He's a licensed EMT and volunteer firefighter - and Fremont, Nebraska just told him he can't have a paid fire job BECAUSE HE WAS HOMESCHOOLED! Coates is 22. He already rides with Cedar Bluffs Fire as a volunteer and holds a Nebraska EMT license. ⠀ "Make a career out of it would be the goal, to get paid to do what you love," he told WOWT. ⠀ The April posting he applied under asked for "graduation from high school." The city said his diploma did not count because Nebraska treats homeschool as unaccredited. ⠀ Fremont later rewrote the description to "graduation from an accredited high school." HR director Jennifer McDuffee said accreditation was already implied. ⠀ "I would say it's a standard understanding that when someone requests a high school diploma or GED that they're asking for an accredited diploma," McDuffee said. ⠀ Homeschools in Nebraska operate as Rule 13 exempt schools. Parents file annually and meet hour rules without state accreditation. ⠀ "We understood that our homeschool operated legally under Nebraska's Rule 13," his father, Seth Coates, told the Omaha World-Herald. "What we never imagined was that the City of Fremont would treat the absence of accreditation as a basis for disqualifying Andrew from public employment." ⠀ JoAnn Coates taught Andrew and his five siblings at home. About 30 homeschool families packed the Civil Service Commission hearing. ⠀ Cedar Bluffs Fire Chief Chris Lichtenberg told the board the city is passing on a firefighter he already trusts. "I feel the city of Fremont's really missing out here, and in my mind, because of his home schooling, you guys are discriminating against him." ⠀ Commissioner Doug Backens rejected that word. "I don't think there was any discrimination against him, and when they use that word, I don't care to hear that word out there." ⠀ Chairman Steve Tellatin noted the original posting's ambiguity. The commission took no action and said city policy is not theirs to rewrite. ⠀ Seth Coates said the family now has 30 days to file in court. Andrew said the fight is no longer only about his application. ⠀ "We're not mad about one applicant, my application. I think now it's turned into we want to make sure that every homeschooler has an equal opportunity." ⠀ #Nebraska #Fremont @HarmeetKDhillon is this something @CivilRights can look into? @jbinnall and @AndrewOllis - the @TheKashFdn ??

Rep. Thomas Massie: “We didn’t get out of Covid because we have strong leaders.” “We got out of Covid because some of you said: I’m not gonna comply.” “If just like 5 or 10% of us do not comply … the system will fall apart.” “Do that wherever you can.” “Your finances.” “How your kids get educated.” “Where you buy your food.” Non-compliance is one of the strongest tools that the health freedom movement has. We’re winning huge victories and making historic progress at the state and local level in getting medical mandates outlawed. In 2025, our Founder and President Leslie Manookian got almost all medical mandates banned in Idaho with the Idaho Medical Freedom Act. Including vaccines. Now, we’re leading the Medical Freedom Act Coalition alongside Stand for Health Freedom and over a dozen more MAHA/health freedom organizations to get that law passed in as many states as possible. But tens of millions of Americans live under state governments that vehemently oppose your right to health freedom. And as we saw during Covid, the federal government will do everything they can to scare you and push you into compliance. Those who refused are the reason we finally ended the era of lockdowns and mandates. @RepThomasMassie @RonPaulInstitut

Flock Safety’s cameras are automated license plate readers (ALPRs) designed to help police find stolen cars or wanted suspects. A joint investigation by 404 Media and WIRED, based on data recovered from a physically removed Flock camera, found that its on-device software explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, bicycles, and license plates. Separately, Washington DC’s police union says the Metropolitan Police Department used Flock data to track officers under Internal Affairs investigation without their knowledge. Together, these reports illustrate a privacy problem: A network built to record the movements of vehicles can readily be used to follow almost anyone. The latest reporting adds an important technical detail to that debate. What Flock cameras collect A group of hackers reportedly removed a Flock camera from a roadway, copied its storage, and recovered an encryption key stored on the device. That allowed them to unlock videos of thousands of vehicle detections despite Flock’s claim that its devices are protected by on-device encryption. Flock said it could not assess the claims without more detail. The recovered camera files reportedly contained software models that detect people, even though public discussion of Flock has usually focused on cars and license plates. The researchers found no evidence that face-recognition features were actively used. Reassuring, but it should not be mistaken for a clean privacy bill of health. Even without facial recognition, a system that records repeated sightings can potentially reveal sensitive patterns of movement, including where someone lives, works, worships, seeks healthcare, attends protests, visits family, or spends time with other people. When a person is matched to a vehicle, vehicle-based tracking can become person-based tracking in practice. As an example of how widely the data can be shared, WIRED found that records from the city of Alpharetta, Georgia: “were accessible to more than 2,000 agencies, including police departments, colleges, airports, and, inexplicably, the Office of Inspector General for the federal General Services Administration.” Targeted tracking of people The Washington DC dispute shows what happens when the power to follow people is turned inward. Flock Safety’s cameras are automated license plate readers (ALPRs) designed to help police find stolen cars or wanted suspects. A joint investigation by 404 Media and WIRED, based on data recovered from a physically removed Flock camera, found that its on-device software explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, bicycles, and license plates. Separately, Washington DC’s police union says the Metropolitan Police Department used Flock data to track officers under Internal Affairs investigation without their knowledge. Together, these reports illustrate a privacy problem: A network built to record the movements of vehicles can readily be used to follow almost anyone. The latest reporting adds an important technical detail to that debate. What Flock cameras collect A group of hackers reportedly removed a Flock camera from a roadway, copied its storage, and recovered an encryption key stored on the device. That allowed them to unlock videos of thousands of vehicle detections despite Flock’s claim that its devices are protected by on-device encryption. Flock said it could not assess the claims without more detail. The recovered camera files reportedly contained software models that detect people, even though public discussion of Flock has usually focused on cars and license plates. The researchers found no evidence that face-recognition features were actively used. Reassuring, but it should not be mistaken for a clean privacy bill of health. Even without facial recognition, a system that records repeated sightings can potentially reveal sensitive patterns of movement, including where someone lives, works, worships, seeks healthcare, attends protests, visits family.

"Flock ran searches for “coexist bumper sticker,” “white truck with a trump sticker,” and “Star of David,” apparently to demonstrate what cops shouldn't search for." 🤔 404media.co/flock-city-pd-th… #Flock #DeFlock #Axon #Surveillance #AxonAxoff #fyp #trending #ALPR #Privacy #AI

Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people arstechnica.com/security/202…