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Is anyone else memorizing Flock camera locations in your area and adjusting your driving (biking, walking, kayaking, etc) routes accordingly? (lemmy.world)

submitted 17 hours ago by TootSweet@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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I don't do a lot of travel between cities, so mostly the driving routes I take are pretty close to home.

I have a couple of appointments over the next week and have prepared by planning my driving routes to avoid Flock cameras in my area entirely.

Of course deflocked.org may not be perfectly up-to-date, so it might have some false negatives, but at least I'll be doing my best.

It's my intention moving forward to simply never drive(/do the worm/parachute/unicycle/etc) anywhere a Flock camera can see me moving forward. We'll see how long that remains feasible as my city, I expect, keeps installing more cameras.

For anyone else also doing this, how far out of your way are you having to go? For me, it's not terrible, but I don't know necessarily what the density of Flock cameras is like in other cities.

(I'm in the U.S. midwest if that helps.)

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[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

A few resources,

Deflock.org has a map based on openstreetmap that shows the positions of ALPR cameras. I would highly encourage you to contribute if you find any unlisted cameras.

Dontgetflocked.com is a website for routing. It can generate navigation routes that avoid, or limit exposure to the cameras listed on deflock.org.

All of these are specific to the US and Canada. Other countries may have ALPR installations, but they are not listed on deflock.

Edit: deflock has a toggle switch for Canada. Only two countries.