Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
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2 hours ago
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| haveibeenflocked.com
| HN
tptacek
1 hour ago
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Besides the obvious privacy concern: at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete.

But, give it a year or two, and you can replace this whole website with a black background and 72 point white bold text "YES".

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calvinmorrison
1 hour ago
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Flock is a private company, right. That's the whole schtick. Like, Flock can retain records indefinitely for example, they may sell those records to the government but they're a private party.
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tptacek
1 hour ago
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What's your point? To the extent they're a private company you're even less likely to get access to records from Flock ALPR cameras.
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calvinmorrison
1 hour ago
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> at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete.

They're not a public body, that was my point

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bigbuppo
32 minutes ago
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Just because the records created on behalf of the government are held by a private enterprise doesn't mean they aren't government records.
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tptacek
28 minutes ago
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Right, I agree. My point is that the FOIA laws of many states forbid disclosing the data this web page purports to surface.
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pilingual
51 minutes ago
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Put up billboards around metros with a license plate reader that queries this database with each passing car and announce "White Tesla Model Y XYZ-1234 You've been focked for: Inv"

What a sick society we live in.

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johnebgd
20 minutes ago
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Dystopian society.
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opengrass
53 minutes ago
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Have I ran out of 100,000 requests?
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WalterSear
36 minutes ago
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Does your significant other know about your car collection? You may have a car hoarding problem.
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bix6
41 minutes ago
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Interesting I can’t access this over VPN
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ccgreg
29 minutes ago
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Well, yeah. Clownflare
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habinero
1 hour ago
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I love these kinds of sites, since they're indistinguishable from honeypots. Sure, have my license plate and the information that I'm worried about being watched.
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AdmiralAsshat
1 hour ago
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With no other identifying info, though, what can they do with a license plate number in isolation?
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ccgreg
27 minutes ago
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Most people park at their home and many drive to work. If you have both of those data points, you can identify people.
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pests
55 minutes ago
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Some states, like Michigan, you can request owner information (including address) by a in-person SOS visit and $15 a plate. I've always thought this should be PII and shouldn't be allowed on reddit, for example, where PII is banned. Post a driver with plate in Michigan and you may have doxxed them.
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rogerrogerr
1 hour ago
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Exactly - you can collect license plates numbers way easier than this. The best data they can really get is a connection to an IP address.
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CamperBob2
56 minutes ago
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Sell it to the cops and/or ICE as belonging to "self-identified persons of interest."
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boomboomsubban
54 minutes ago
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They list their sources, if you care but don't trust them you could replicate it on your own.
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RobRivera
1 hour ago
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Lmao I got honeypotted in h.s. by one of those 'does your crush like you' astrology sites
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MangoToupe
1 hour ago
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Who isn't worried about being watched? I am certainly not confident the government can tell their ass from their face, so anyone could be suspect.
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Simulacra
1 hour ago
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Sounds like social media ;-)
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alilikestech
1 hour ago
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Lol I actually tried it with my plate, i hope i don't get SWATed
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user3939382
59 minutes ago
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Can’t wait for the Flock Equifax/SouthParkWereSorry-esque breach announcement any day. I should start a betting pool w my friends.
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pilingual
42 minutes ago
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If YouTube personalities can break into the hardware, I wouldn't be surprised if foreign intelligence has already figured out a way. Clownin
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bigbuppo
30 minutes ago
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I've got $10 on compromised six months before they had their first customer.
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onetokeoverthe
1 hour ago
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just enter 10 license numbers.
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