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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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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It should be legal to obscure your license plate until all flock cameras are dismantled, and AI usage is banned for use by police

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been thinking about these, but worried that they're not legal.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago

Also worried this is a honeypot