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New website lets drivers check whether their license plate has been searched on Flock database - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 14 hours ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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HaveIBeenFlocked.com compiles Flock audit logs, allowing users to type in their license plate number, and the website returns information on search results, including whether or not a Flock system operator has searched the database for their license plate.

The audit log includes the stated reason that someone in law enforcement gave in order to look up the license plate, but doesn’t include if or when your vehicle passed one of the Flock cameras.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 52 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Something I find interesting about this is, there's no verification that you do indeed own the plate you're searching. I'm not sure what mischief you could get up to knowing that the police searched for information on someone else, but it's something to think about.

[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 30 points 11 hours ago

Honeypot as fuck

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It also allows criminals to check if they are already under the eyes of the police. Want to do a drug run? Check if somebody has tracked your vehicle beforehand!

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Ooh, that's a good point. Time to get a new car, they know about this one.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You just steal plates from another car. Bonus points if you can find the same model. Most people don't check their front and back every time they hop in - just snag their front plate and swap.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That's a risky move though, if you get caught driving a car with stolen plates, you're in trouble.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

Someone must have nicked my mine and swapped them

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 28 points 13 hours ago

I prefer that to there being some requirement that you provide identification to access the audit logs. Actually, what I would really prefer would be for there to be no need for audit logs in the first place, if there were no system to be audited.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 13 hours ago

The first thing that came to my mind also.

This sounds like another privacy nightmare put on top of the already more than questionable Flock installations.