In only a few years, the surveillance start-up Flock has installed more than 100,000 licence plate reader cameras across the United States.<\/p>\n
But a grass-roots movement upset over privacy concerns is fighting back \u2013 even going so far as systematically vandalising the equipment.<\/p>\n
The first time he decided to trash one of the cameras, a self-styled vigilante wearing all black and known as Nomark, says he was \u201csuper nervous\u201d.<\/p>\n
Now, after disabling about 30 of the devices near his home in the Minneapolis area, he said: \u201cI\u2019m not really as scared any more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flock cameras are installed by police departments, homeowners\u2019 associations and businesses, ostensibly to catch criminals in the act. Data is uploaded to Flock\u2019s cloud and can be shared with subscribers.<\/p>\n
But opponents are outraged at what they say is a dangerous tool that can be used to infringe on American privacy and civil liberties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In only a few years, the surveillance start-up Flock has installed more than 100,000 licence plate reader cameras…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3768,342817,342818,128473,100366,342820,3031,16950,3,342819,10346,342816,34666,39690,21,19,22,20,25,24,5148],"class_list":["post-807645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-american-civil-liberties-union","tag-christopher-newport-university","tag-deflock-america","tag-flock","tag-garrett-langley","tag-jon-bridges","tag-los-angeles","tag-minneapolis","tag-news","tag-nomark","tag-richmond","tag-steven-keener","tag-the-washington-post","tag-tucker-carlson","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}