Our first confirmed case of something we’ve been warning about since the explosive growth of Flock license plate surveillance to thousands of jurisdictions across the nation: the capacity for this technology to be used to surveil abortion-seekers. - ThreadSky

katerosebee.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Our first confirmed case of something we’ve been warning about since the explosive growth of Flock license plate surveillance to thousands of jurisdictions across the nation: the capacity for this technology to be used to surveil abortion-seekers.

Reposted from 404 Media

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion

🔗 www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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leinsterlad.bsky.social•4 days ago

portfoliocarmel.bsky.social•4 days ago

📌

obicynkenobi.bsky.social•4 days ago

It really sucks to be right :(

plungerman.bsky.social•4 days ago

check out deflock:

https://deflock.me/

massdisillusion.bsky.social•4 days ago

400 Uvalde and TX cops were afraid to confront a teenager killing babies.

fucking worthless cowards.

katerosebee.bsky.social•4 days ago

Texas police use of Flock license plate cameras to stalk someone for their abortion across state lines affirms what we already know: the initiating factor in these cases tends to overwhelmingly be people known to and often trusted by the abortion seeker calling the cops on them.

noospheric.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/anti-surveillance-mapmaker-refuses-flock-safetys-cease-and-desist-demand

redteamwrangler.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thanks for contributing to the reporting!

nullinterface.bsky.social•4 days ago

Related, the "I only spend cash (because I don't want the .gov to know what I'm doing!)" crowd has a blind spot for how easily - and routinely - their vehicles and phones are surveilled.

nullinterface.bsky.social•4 days ago

Vehicles: (aforementioned) ALPRs, toll payment transponders, cellular modems
Phones: Cell network, apps tattling GPS coords, Bluetooth transponder pings

Also assumes that the gendarmerie hasn't gotten ahold of facial recognition software that works well enough

ontological.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s about to get a whole lot the fuck worse as semantic search combines with social network deanonymization and structural/behavioral role discovery (largely solved problems) and metastasizes into VC-backed SaaS slop. Deets in alt text.

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