• ickplant@lemmy.world
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    If I found out my husband destroyed a flock camera I’d fuck him three times harder than I normally do.

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      If you’re in the U.S. you’ve probably seen them in grocery store parking lots. They typically are like a trailer hitch with a bunch of solar panels on it, and then a pole, and a multi-directional camera on the very top of the pole, with a blinking light. I’m colorblind, but I think the light is blue.

      They claim to be for the security of the business, but what they do is to monitor all license plates and all cars that come into a given area(and they can identify the same car even if the license plate is changed).

      And I wouldn’t have so much of a problem with that if individual businesses wanted to have closed-circuit video for their parking lot, but these things are networked nationwide, so this company can track the exact location of your car nationwide, each and every time one of your cars drives by these things.

      The operation of these things should be a felony, and it makes sense that people are destroying them now. I completely understand why.

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        They typically are like a trailer hitch with a bunch of solar panels on it, and then a pole, and a multi-directional camera on the very top of the pole, with a blinking light. I’m colorblind, but I think the light is blue.

        That’s one version of surveillance, but I don’t think it’s from Flock. That’s a different company (though no less worthy of destruction).

        Flock cameras look like this:

        While they’re sometimes seen in parking lots (especially entrances and exits), they’re typically installed on the side of the road in seemingly random places.

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        I thought they started getting destroyed because they implemented facial recognition and agreed to collude with ICE to track down dark-skinned folk.

        Edit: While I was fact-checking the brands involved with ICE I did come across another company, owned by Motorola, called Vigilant Solutions. Their specialty - and crime - is also reading and tracking license plates across the country. I hope they get just as much awareness.

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          IIRC the Supreme Court has ruled that the police buying information from private companies does not require a warrant, so you have no 4th amendment protections.

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    Just remember to never ever buy a high-powered blue or green laser pointer (1 watt+), which sadly are easily available many places online, because were you to do that, and accidentally turn it on while it was pointed at, say, a camera sensor, you could permanently damage that sensor and make it unusable!

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      There was a study that showed these don’t actually work.

      But I agree with your sentiment. Definitely do not cut them down or pull on their wiring and take any copper/solar panels that you can resell.

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    Some favorites: Crack heads looting batteries, pharaoh ants, high power green and IR lasers, city maintenance crews, a reflective vest and tools, mirrors, geeks looting batteries and raspberry pis, hacking to spy on law enforcement and the city council…