alt Hacker NewsWe Put Flock Under Surveillance: Go Make Them Behave Differently [video]
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https://deflock.me/ deserves a mention for its crowdsourcing of ALPR camera data on https://openstreetmap.org and on the site. Recording even one camera may be the only notice a resident has that Flock and ALPRs are operating in their municipality.
Same author talked about adversarial license plates that trick these cameras with a sequence of black blocks, discussed here in original form [1]. He is interested in breaking both the plate detection (ideal) and character recognition (good). The examples are pretty cool looking.
I can't see the link due to corporate restricted mode for youtube, is this regarding the same Flock that is a YC company?
Quiet red areas rolling over to Flock are what’s going to cause us all to lose in the end.
Another quiet little village in rural New York just signed on for 11 cameras, and it sounds like the county itself (2800 square miles(!)) is also playing around with them. The locals won’t raise the hard hitting questions - they’ll just roll over with the bullshit answers from Flock reps.
https://northcountrynow.com/stories/village-of-massena-enter...
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Alternate parse: "we put flock(2) under surveillance: go(1) makes them behave differently"
If you want to save yourself six minutes' of video, this is about https://alpr.watch/ and their new feature that can alert you by email if your local municipal officials are going to be discussing Flock in upcoming meetings, based on published meeting agendas.
The video also links you to a wiki with some nice counter-arguments to the standard pro-Flock arguments: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Common_Questions,_Arguments,_%...
I went ahead and signed up; I live in a pretty dense part of the US, we'll see how many alerts I get in the next year.