Below are posts associated with the “ALPRs” tag.
🔗 linkblog: A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
So scary, so gross. Lexington needs to ditch Flock now.
🔗 linkblog: ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock sucks, and I’m so mad that Lexington drank the Kool-Aid instead of resisting local surveillance. Just wrote my city council representative, the vice mayor, and the two at-large representatives.
🔗 linkblog: License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows
Wish I’d done more to resist Flock adoption in Lexington.
🔗 linkblog: ALPR Maker Flock Broke Laws Repeatedly While Installing Cameras, Courting Cop Shops'
Flock provides the ALPRs here in Lexington, which makes this especially frustrating.
🔗 linkblog: Lexington, Ky Mayor wants to expand license plate cameras | Lexington Herald Leader'
I have written council representatives about this more than anything else, and yet I suspect that it will go through again without a fuss. This isn’t the worst form of surveillance, but it is still surveillance, pure and simple.
🔗 linkblog: Police Are Still Abusing Investigative Exemptions to Shield Surveillance Tech, While Others Move Towards Transparency | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
Who is allowed to watch the watchmen? This is why I’m grumpy about Lexington being hush hush about its new automated license plate readers—it sets a precedent for secretive use of even more invasive surveillance.
🔗 linkblog: Gorton unveils $460 million Lexington budget | Lexington Herald Leader'
Most of this budget sounds great, but why are we budgeting for 75 more ALPRs when we haven’t even finished the trial of the current ones yet? Not to mention that the trial is unlikely to evaluate ethics, only “effectiveness.”
🔗 linkblog: New Flock security cameras being installed in Lexington by end of May | Lexington Herald Leader'
There are a few yellow flags in this article for me. Quick and efficient sounds good, but are those the most important values in policing? What values do they stand in tension with? It’s great that there are policies against using a ALPR database for personal reasons, but these policies regularly get violated. No, these aren’t videosurveillance cameras, but that doesn’t make them harmless.
🔗 linkblog: Please Delete Your Recordings: Inside a Police Conference'
Lexington just installed plate readers on a trial basis, so this hits particularly hard right now. It’s scary and it needs to stop.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Lexington KY police test license plate cameras to solve crime | Lexington Herald Leader'
We should all be concerned about this. Describing this as “high tech” in the first line of the story fetishizes surveillance. It’s gross.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Surveillance Startup Brings Police Tech to Neighborhoods - Bloomberg'
Nope nope nope nope. If plate readers are going to become more common, I’ve got to start biking more places. Not that that will protect against Ring. 🤮🤮🤮