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Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
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this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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A neat protest for these cameras would be replicate local officials license plates, place them on vehicles and just drive them all over the place, speeding, running lights and all kinds of crap
Or just place a dozen license plates on one vehicle ...
or on the back of a truck with an automatic window -> only show all the license plates when in front of a flock camera, hide them again after
Unfortunately, license plates are but a small fraction of what these things can capture. Your face, gait, and voice, for example.
You know the ankle weights that meatheads wear while running? Put two on one ankle. That'll screw their gait algorithm. Face: a ski mask, a bit of paint, or some dangly reflective decorations hanging off the front of a hat. Voice: STFU.
simple .... get a rubber mask of Richard Nixon ... buy a few and give them to all the people that are running the same plates that you are mimicking ... and don't forget to give double peace signs every time ... because you're not a crook!
These things also identify paint scratches and dents/stickers for when it can't read the plates. I'm not so sure this would do much to poison the data
You flood it with all kinds of info and let them sort it out ... give fake plates, funny plates, dumb plates, non plates, funny characters, random characters ... if enough people did it all over the place, the system would get flooded with nonsense data that they would all have to sort through. Sure an electronic system could sort right through it in seconds ... but it would be humans that would have to verify the computers confident answers (even if they are wrong).
And they read the unique radio identifiers off of each of your tires
Some tires have RFID chips embedded in them with recycling information. But I don't believe that RFID tags can be read with any reliability from the distance a plate reader operates at. Could the magnetic loop detectors embedded in the street be modified to do it? Maybe.
I'm not familiar with the ones you are talking about. The tire pressure sensors are meant to be read at a distance though.