Probably the worst of them all is the Ring doorbell. It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue. disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...

"Rules for thee but not for me" 🤔 No one should be forcibly subjected to intrusive facial recognition just to attend an event. 🚫 Source: "Some Bay Area police unions concerned about use of facial recognition at Super Bowl" youtu.be/tBCj6QIg2RE #surveillance #facialrecognition

The potential to become a truly dystopian nightmare of a partnership. Surveillance creep never ends unless we push back! ✋ www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... Ditch #Ring! 🚫 Cancel #Flock! 🚫 Ban facial recognition! 🚫 End mass #surveillance! 🚫 #deflock #facialrecognition

Not the hero we need, nor the one we deserve. Cancel #Flock! 🚫 Ban ALPRs. ✅ plateprivacy.com ✅ deflock.me #deflock #antifa? #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety

This live webinar on December 9 seems worthy of adding to our calendars. ICYMI, @ij.org are the champions filing a legal case on behalf of Alek Schott who was unconstitutionally stopped and searched in Texas in 2022. ij.org/case/texas-t... #fourthamendment #surveillance #alpr

Was an honor to have @hypervisible.blacksky.app on our podcast to talk about spying on ourselves, spying on each other, Flock, Ring, food delivery robots, and general surveillance culture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBg...

The fight against surveillance must include infrastructure that enables it. We can’t just oppose collection we must also fight storage, analysis, corporate relationships… As someone writing a book on the history of government data storage and its harms, I’ll say that people in the past knew this!

No notes- Ban ALPRs www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...

Perspective on AP report revealing how DHS uses AI and mass surveillance across the nation to target, detain, and seize money from innocent drivers www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

How the government & private companies join forces to bypass protections and subject us to warrantless mass surveillance! Full video: youtu.be/IOa9tjoxsQ8 Find cameras near you: deflock.me/map Cancel #Flock 🚫 #deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety

This article is copaganda. This article is intended to make us believe that holding police accountable is possible. ALPRs are powerful. It's not safe for anyone to use them. There is no legitimate use of ALPRs. ALPRs make us all less safe. www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

"Tell Our City Leaders to Protect Our Community- Stop Collecting FLOCK Information!" www.mobilize.us/centralwashi... #deflock #yakima #surveillance #alpr #flock #flocksafety

Turns out it was right there in the small print all along! 🤦‍♂️ #forthamendment #surveillance #privacy #alpr #deflock #flocksafety

More than 600 Flock camera locations in Hampton Roads are public for the first time. See the map. trib.al/T29geAj

"Flock operates a ‘digital dragnet’, creating a database of where every person travels, regardless of whether they have committed a crime. Your daily patterns are being logged, stored, and shared." #deflock #lynnwood #surveillance #alpr #flock

I was interviewed for @theintercept.com about the FBI’s attempt to find new AI capabilities for their drones including face recognition, license plate reading, and always-flawed firearms detection.

"License plate readers are incredibly powerful #surveillance. They're collecting mass amounts of information about who people are, where they go, what they do, & who they know." "These surveillance systems do not communities safer. They make community members more threatened." #alpr #privacy

It's no secret that 2025 has given Americans plenty to protest about. But as news cameras showed protesters filling streets of cities across the country, cops were watching those streets through different lenses: Flock Safety license plate readers that tracked every car. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Lowe-lights #1 Not understanding (or willfully ignoring) the arguments against, and strong public resentment of, #Flock and mass #surveillance! ❌ The *only* proposed, but clearly reluctant, concession here is data retention down from 30 days to 10-12! ❌ 1/3 #deflock #redmond #alpr

Here is a very informative article about efforts to Get The Flock Out of Santa Cruz County, California:

You know that police drone in the sky? Those license plate readers? Oh, and the worried feeling you get about your data being collected as you interact with your devices? Yeah, that shouldn't be the norm. That's why we're fighting back: takebackctrl.org/stop-survei...

Chief Lowe really just doesn't get it (or is being willfully ignorant). Not impressed with his handling of this. 👎 We can choose what car to buy, we don't get a choice to avoid his imposition of dragnet surveillance. Except, maybe we do... Cancel #Flock! 🚫 #deflock #redmond #surveillance #alpr

Chief Lowe said he wants to turn all the #Flock cameras back on with effectively no changes! 👎 Whether there was any outside access or not is besides the point, we just don't want to be surveilled 24/7! 🚫 The suspension remains in place. A legal review on the contract will be the next step. ✅

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 We're suing the city of San Jose for its pervasive ALPR surveillance program. With nearly 500 ALPRs, the SJPD allows its officers to search millions of records, all without a warrant. These unconstitutional searches must be stopped. Read the complaint: www.eff.org/cases/siren...

When you seemingly spend more on SEO bombing than security.

Looking for something to do this Tuesday evening? Why not try a field trip with @eastsideurbanism.org and help push back against dragnet #surveillance in #Redmond? #deflock #alpr #flock #flocksafety

See also this: how companies have created infrastructure to make police advertisers and influencers to go out and sell their products for them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

⚠️ Agenda for #Flock #ALPR cameras (CM No. 25-631) is up for the "Committee of the Whole - Public Safety and Human Services" meeting on Tuesday November 18 at 16:30. redmond.legistar.com/MeetingDetai... www.redmond.gov/189/City-Cou... #deflock #redmond #surveillance #flocksafety

Another essential @bennjordan.bsky.social video on #Flock! "Privacy is a form of power that increases your control over your own destiny. And right now, you're at a junction where you're made to be so scared of your neighbors that you might be willing to give up that power." #deflock #surveillance

You can now more easily browse or report #Flock #ALPR cameras (and more) with the recently released #DeFlock App for iOS or Android! Note that the Android version is Google Play only right now, but an #F-Droid version is supposedly due soon. deflock.me/app

"Andrew says his case shows how easily a false hit could have bigger consequences." #deflock #redmond #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety

Mobile IDs promise convenience, but before you download your state’s app, there’s a few questions worth asking yourself. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

If your city is suspending or cancelling #Flock, remember that "switching to another #ALPR vendor" is NOT the solution. Dragnet bulk data collection is the core problem. #Flock is just one particularly egregious example. Mass #surveillance does not make any of us safer! 🚫

Skamania County Sheriff Summer Scheyer announced this week that her office would discontinue using Flock Safety cameras over concerns that a recent Washington state court decision could make it easier to weaponize the data they collect.

Selling driver license data should never have been allowed to become a thing in the first place! 😠 Let's get this outlawed everywhere!!

Another cancelled Flock contract! In this press release, Ferndale names that they are looking at other ALPR vendors. The problem isn't Flock. The problem is ALPRs. ALPRs are violent tools. The problem is how much power these tools grant police and corporations. ferndalemi.gov/news/ferndal...

We had a 5-0 passing of the formal #Flock suspension by #Redmond City Council tonight! 🏆 We could still use clarification on whether the cameras are physically prevented from capturing data and it's not just RPD without access. It's not like we can trust Flock! 🤥 #deflock #surveilance #alpr

NEW: A judge in Washington has ruled that police images taken by Flock’s AI license plate-scanning cameras are public records that can be requested as part of normal public records requests. The decision highlights the sheer volume of the technology-fueled surveillance state in the US.

Agenda for "Suspension of #Flock #ALPR System" (AM No. 25-165) is now posted for the #Redmond City Council meeting on Wednesday November 12 at 18:30. redmond.legistar.com/MeetingDetai... A further discussion is planned for Tuesday November 18. #deflock #surveillance #flocksafety

New: A Columbine Valley police officer who used surveillance from AI-powered license plate readers to wrongly accuse a Denver woman of stealing a $25 package will be disciplined, town officials said.

WA state employee concerned about government overreach filed public records requests with police whose records revealed that * color us surprised* Flock ALPR cams capture images of all vehicles indiscriminately, not just those suspected of criminal activity. www.king5.com/article/news...

A comprehensive guide from @eff.org Covers ALPRs, biometric surveillance, body-worn cameras, Stringrays, drones, face recognition, gunshot detection, predictive policing, real-time location tracking, social media monitoring, and more. #privacy #surveillance #alpr #flock #facialrecognition

Great piece about the five layers of mass #surveillance we face in our every day lives from @foxcahn.bsky.social of @stopspyingny.bsky.social. #flock #ring #alexa #facialrecognition #privacy #masssurveillance #alpr

In the City of Chamblee, a FLOCK camera maintenance tech thought it was a good idea to drive an 18k pound GVWR bucket truck on what is basically a deck.

Michigan attorney Steve Lehto's take on the #Skagit County Superior Court ruling about #Flock data and the Public Records Act on Thursday. #deflock #washingtonstate #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety

Agenda for "Suspension of #Flock #ALPR System" (AM No. 25-165) is now posted for the #Redmond City Council meeting on Wednesday November 12 at 18:30. redmond.legistar.com/MeetingDetai... A further discussion is planned for Tuesday November 18. #deflock #surveillance #flocksafety

The Olympia Police Department will give a briefing on the city’s Flock Safety cameras on Dec. 2 during a City Council study session.

More reporting on the #Skagit County court case around public records requests for #Flock mass surveillance camera data. #deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety

Woodinville Police chief says the quiet part out loud. License plate readers like Flock are not about decreasing crime. License Plate Readers won't decrease crime youtu.be/7ooaJSuoD8Y

An interesting case. There would be alarming privacy implications if anyone could submit public records requests for the data and footage from these #Flock mass surveillance cameras!