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ssroxnak@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 hours ago

License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows

www.404media.co

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License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows

www.404media.co

ssroxnak@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 hours ago
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Flock, which has license plate readers (LPRs) all around the country, wants police to be able to “jump from LPR to person,” according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media.
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    idcaboutprivacy

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    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?

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      its not a crime if you are rich and evil

      or more famously: cOrpoRatIons Are nOt PeOplE

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      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.

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

        Same on nvidia leak by lapsus$.

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          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.

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

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      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.

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

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    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.

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      Peter is a danger to all of humanity.

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

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    A tragical traffical tragedy. Flock off!

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

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      Yes. Each state already has this data.

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

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

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    Death to alprs

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