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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me (www.thedrive.com)
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A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.

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[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I can't lead an effort to push the local govn't to do something like this. I just don't have the charisma, but I would definitely join the cause. I was a part of a club once to overturn a law in a nearby city. It was interesting to see how it all worked.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Even if not, familiarize yourself with DeFlock. At the very least, hopefully, there's a way you can route yourself when you're getting around that'll deprive them of data.

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

They're expanding their footprint around me. The city and adjacent city both have contracts and several retailers have them at all entrances. I tried to see if I could add the locations to deflock via street complete but then realized that I can't log the sites when (safely) driving.