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Flock cameras are getting mobbed | CNN

Flock cameras, automated license plate readers made by Flock Safety, are increasingly being targeted by mobs, according to CNN. The devices, which capture and store license plate data, have raised privacy concerns as they track vehicles in public spaces, prompting calls to reassess privacy expectations in the digital age.

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Flock cameras are getting mobbed | CNN
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edmc 21 That was kind of my point. Having no expectation of privacy in public places made more sense in a time when people had 35mm film cameras, there was not internet (let alone AI), and no smartphones in everybody’s pocket.

Now, forget about all of that! Your every move is now in a database - your location on a map, your credit card transactions, everything you search for on the internet, … everything.

It’s time to re-evaluate what “expectation of privacy” means in the current era.

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