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Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing (www.404media.co)
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Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, exposed some of the license plate cops were looking for and the reason for doing so.

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[–] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

On top of what everyone else saod, FLOCK can track your vehicle as you cross several plus states. I would say 90% if not more highways and freeways have them across the US.

Cool tool for stopping real crininals, bad tool on a civil rights side.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Pretty much everyone is a real criminal, it's just that most crimes are so minor that they are ignored (see: jaywalking, speeding, putting ice cream in your pocket). In some cases, the laws exist to provide a fig leaf for the powers that be when they want to fuck with someone.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    People don't understand "real" criminal in deeply intertwined with regular people and regular cops and politicians. Most "regular" naive people think of criminals as some mythical thing but they are everywhere. It's almost as if the "straight" legal life is mirrored 1 to 1 with the dark side. And that part of maintaining the "legal" side is to market that the dark side is a myth, even though is there, part of the "legal" sides politics, economy, and culture.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    This is basically what happened when people whine about the authority only take action when crime are commited. So now everyone are being watched in every corner.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    Idk even know if it's that. This system works people against each other. They create the barrel of crabs and profit off all the bullshit as people claw their way out to get to the rights that a human should naturally have.

    Everything is business. And suffering creates reason. It's a system.

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