License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows (www.404media.co)
from ssroxnak@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 14 May 16:36
https://lemmy.world/post/29645041

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pirat@lemmy.world on 14 May 17:12 next collapse

A tragical traffical tragedy. Flock off!

zephorah@lemm.ee on 14 May 17:15 next collapse

This is the Peter Thiel world. Trump will die in his sleep of old age and one too many chicken nuggets, and Thiel’s puppet, Vance, will take over.

At which point all privacy will be off the table.

reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml on 14 May 17:50 collapse

Peter is a danger to all of humanity.

blindbunny@lemmy.ml on 14 May 17:54 collapse

All my commie friends should stop calling me a sovereign citizen wanna be for rolling without a plate now right?

krolden@lemmy.ml on 14 May 17:38 next collapse

Death to alprs

entwine413@lemm.ee on 14 May 17:42 next collapse

Hasn’t that already been a thing for a long time now?

catloaf@lemm.ee on 14 May 18:46 collapse

Yes. Each state already has this data.

railcar@midwest.social on 14 May 21:08 collapse

Yeah but private enterprise didn’t. And if commercial, Leo can buy it without a warrant

entwine413@lemm.ee on 14 May 22:08 collapse

Private enterprises can just buy the data from the state in most places.

surph_ninja@lemmy.world on 14 May 18:26 next collapse

We desperately need a law against the third party doctrine loophole for the 4th amendment.

FauxLiving@lemmy.world on 14 May 20:26 collapse

We needed that when Snowden leaked, now the political will is gone and the average person just accepts it because they get free services in exchange for letting advertising companies and law enforcement live in their pocket.

surph_ninja@lemmy.world on 14 May 20:28 collapse

I don’t think anyone accepts it. But nothing will be done about it until the capitalists are removed from power.

far_university1990@reddthat.com on 14 May 19:27 next collapse

the Flock employee described the sorts of information the company will supplement ALPR data with. The first is data breaches.

That illegal obtained data, so illegal to use. They just admit to crime?

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 14 May 20:16 next collapse

its not a crime if you are rich and evil

or more famously: cOrpoRatIons Are nOt PeOplE

FauxLiving@lemmy.world on 14 May 20:24 collapse

A funny loophole. The person who stole the data did a crime.

Now that the data is public then it is free game because it is public information.

far_university1990@reddthat.com on 14 May 20:43 collapse

Windows XP sourcecode leaked 2020. Wine not touch it because illegal.

Same on nvidia leak by lapsus$.

FauxLiving@lemmy.world on 14 May 20:48 collapse

Because the source code is copyrighted, the fact that userA has an email address userA@gmail.com isn’t copyrighted and so companies can ingest that data into their databases.

hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world on 14 May 21:19 next collapse

idcaboutprivacy

digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.de on 20 May 03:33 collapse

Here’s a map showing the locations of this corporation’s existing readers: DeFlock.me

It’s operated by a group of privacy advocates and educators to spread awareness. Flock tried to use a bogus trademark claim to interfere with the project.