Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida

St. Lucie County in Florida discovered alt link a dozen Flock cameras whose ownership it can't identify, and that the county government had not permitted. I am reminded of the decade-old story of StingRay cell phone surveillance devices in Washington, DC, whose operators were also unknown. My gue...

You Can Now Destroy Flock Cameras for Cash in GTA V

A new GTA mod lets you smash and shoot Flock’s automatic license plate readers around the fictional Los Santos...

Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras

Not sure it's practical, but it's certainly striking...

On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras

A recent story of a writer who was mistakenly identified, tracked, and arrested using data from Flock cameras has gone viral. The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM , not 34 10 DTM. But when the police report was created and the plate was entered into...

A week in security (July 13 – July 19)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Shark vacuum flaw exposes cameras, home maps and Wi-Fi passwords How to use GitHub safely The backlash against Flock cameras is spreading Security updates available for Adobe, Chrome, Firefox, VMWare, and Zoom Samsung backs down on threat to delete health data Clau...

The backlash against Flock cameras is spreading

Flock-style ALPR systems carry serious privacy and civil-liberties risks, and the backlash is now starting to show up in agency decisions too. For those not yet familiar with Flock, Flock Safety operates an automated license plate recognition ALPR system that uses cameras and computer vision to...

Flock Cameras Are Being Used for Stalking

There are over a dozen cases around the country where police officers are using the Flock surveillance camera system to obsessively and illegally stalk people. Alternate link...