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Miguel Afonso Caetano"Flock Safety loves to crow about the thousands of local law enforcement agencies around the United States that have adopted its avian-themed automated license plate readers (ALPRs). But when a privacy activist launched a website to map out the exact locations of these pole-mounted devices, the company tried to clip his wings. The company sent DeFlock.me and its creator Will Freeman a cease-and-desist letter, claiming that the project dilutes its trademark. Suffice it to say, and to lean into ornithological wordplay, the letter is birdcage liner. Representing Freeman, EFF sent Flock Safety a letter rejecting the demand, pointing out that the grassroots project is well within its First Amendment rights." <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/anti-surveillance-mapmaker-refuses-flock-safetys-cease-and-desist-demand" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/anti-surveillance-mapmaker-refuses-flock-safetys-cease-and-desist-demand</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FlockSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FlockSafety</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ALPRs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ALPRs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Surveillance</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IP</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trademarks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trademarks</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceState</a>

Doug Grinbergs<a href="https://mastodon.social/@eff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@eff</a> "<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EFF</a>’s Atlas of Surveillance project has identified more than 1,700 agencies using <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ALPRs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ALPRs</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DeFlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeFlock</a> has mapped out more than 16,000 individual camera locations, more than a third of which are Flock Safety devices." <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/anti-surveillance-mapmaker-refuses-flock-safetys-cease-and-desist-demand" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/anti-surveillance-mapmaker-refuses-flock-safetys-cease-and-desist-demand</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FlockSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FlockSafety</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AtlasOfSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AtlasOfSurveillance</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"DeFlock runs on Open Street Map, an open source, editable mapping software. He began posting signs for DeFlock to the posts holding up Huntsville’s ALPR cameras, and made a post about the project to the Huntsville subreddit, which got good attention from people who lived there. People have been plotting not just Flock ALPRs, but all sorts of ALPRs, all over the world.“I’ve become good at spotting them just because I’m kind of subconsciously always looking for them,” he said.“I want everyone to be aware that this is happening. And I don’t think I can change people’s minds—some people will be fine with it. But some people won’t be,” he said. “And hopefully enough people won’t be fine with it and will do something to get them taken down [in their city] or at least better controlled, preferably taken down.”When I first talked to Freeman, DeFlock had a few dozen cameras mapped in Huntsville and a handful mapped in Southern California and in the Seattle suburbs. A week later, as I write this, DeFlock has crowdsourced the locations of thousands of cameras in dozens of cities across the United States and the world."<a href="https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-project-deflock-is-mapping-license-plate-surveillance-cameras-all-over-the-world/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-project-deflock-is-mapping-license-plate-surveillance-cameras-all-over-the-world/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Crowdsourcing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Crowdsourcing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Surveillance</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LicensePlateReaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LicensePlateReaders</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ALPRs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ALPRs</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Imagine driving to get your nails done with your family and all of a sudden, you are pulled over by police officers for allegedly driving a stolen car. You are dragged out of the car and detained at gun point. So are your daughter, sister, and nieces. The police handcuff your family, even the children, and force everyone to lie face-down on the pavement, before eventually realizing that they made a mistake. This happened to Brittney Gilliam and her family on a warm Sunday in Aurora, Colorado, in August 2020.And the error? The police officers who pulled them over were relying on information generated by automated license plate readers (ALPRs). These are high-speed, computer-controlled camera systems that automatically capture all license plate numbers that come into view, upload them to a central server, and compare them to a “hot list” of vehicles sought by police. The ALPR system told the police that Gilliam’s car had the same license plate number as a stolen vehicle. But the stolen vehicle was a motorcycle with Montana plates, while Gilliam’s vehicle was an SUV with Colorado plates."<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/human-toll-alpr-errors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/human-toll-alpr-errors</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LicensePlateReaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LicensePlateReaders</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LicensePlateRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LicensePlateRecognition</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ALPRs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ALPRs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Surveillance</a>

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