The Surveillance State Has Arrived - Masked Heroes Are Fighting Back

... Flock Safety cameras, the most prominent brand in this AI surveillance space, are automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that capture high-resolution images of every passing vehicle. Flock and similar systems now operate in thousands of communities, with over 110,000 cameras mapped nationwide, according to DeFlock, an open-source project mapping license plate readers.

Thanks to recent tech upgrades like Leonardo’s SignalTrace, these cameras... also track the electronic signatures of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, RFID, and other wireless signals from devices inside or near your vehicle...

Using AI and optical character recognition, these systems extract as much private data as possible, including timestamps and geolocation, before uploading it to a cloud platform accessible to all participating law enforcement agencies. And they can do this to law-abiding U.S. citizens without warrants...

Newer Condor cameras use pan-tilt-zoom capabilities and AI to detect and follow pedestrians in real time as they walk through the frame...

Police have used Flock data to issue wrongful accusations...

DeFlock.org, the crowdsourcing site, helps users plan routes that avoid cameras. Local efforts have led to contract cancellations in dozens of cities, including Eugene, Oregon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Evanston, Illinois... the company had given the data to federal authorities...

The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure and requires warrants based on probable cause...