1. hibf Dec 21, 2025 parent

   Technically true. Flock could present an unfounded argument that I might be brute-forcing my own security and privacy measures.

   I think it'd sound pretty dumb.

2. hibf Dec 21, 2025 parent

   They don't actually allege anything. They add in the keywords without going so far as to say "this website is doing X." It's enough to trip the keyword filters at Cloudflare and other hosting providers and reverse the burden of proof.
3. hibf Dec 21, 2025 parent

   Can't be less than what support has had to say up until now.
4. hibf Dec 7, 2025 parent

   Whenever anyone does a search in Flock's database, Flock sends the metadata to the related customers.

   I.e., if someone does a statewide lookup in Nebraska, all Nebraska-based Flock customers receive the search metadata. Ostensibly, to be able to track if "their" ALPR data has been queried. Those audit logs are public record.

   This is also how IL discovered out-of-state agencies were using data from Illinois for immigration enforcement (after FOIA by a citizen, of course; apparently none of the IL law enforcement agencies audited their data for unlawful activity).

5. hibf Dec 7, 2025 parent

   That seems contradictory. You don't care about a parking garage operator, but at the same time distrust "some random third party company"?
6. hibf Dec 7, 2025 parent

   I'll assume you're correctly citing the statute — someone entering a sequence of characters in a "Search" field doesn't mean that the search term was "gathered by" or "created from the analysis of" ALPR data.
7. hibf Dec 6, 2025 parent

   This automated already, and you don't need a face. Flock does it.

   https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/reid

8. hibf Dec 6, 2025 parent

   You assume those aren't logged and accessible by the government. They are.
9. hibf Dec 6, 2025 parent

   You're right that the dataset is incomplete, but it contains searches done by police, not plates read by Flock.

   The search logs are public record even when alpr data is not; quite a few come from IL.

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