Flock 'Safety' Stalking Cameras - and other ANVR spy cameras

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coolguyawesome72 said:
About a year ago, Lowe’s signed a deal with Flock safety to put cameras at every one of their locations. They’re installed at the entrances to the parking lot, oftentimes in full view of the street, so even if you’re not going to Lowe’s you still get captured in frame. This, I imagine, is the main vector that Flock uses to get their surveillance cameras in smaller towns. I’m worried that more businesses may try to do something similar, and add to the already insane amount of spying. Just imagine having both the police and the businesses spying on you for no real reason, it sounds like something out of a bad dystopia novel.
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My local Lowe's doesn't have them in their side parking lot so I just park there and use the rear entrance which I have not seen one yet. I just park and walk in. Flipping off the camera as I do so.
 
9NEWS Colorado were contacted by a private investigator who recorded a Flock salesman on Zoom telling him that Flock 'partnered' with private investigators. I.e. they're not just providing your private movements to stalkers who HAPPEN to be police officers, they're selling them to professional stalkers.
  1. Flock says that actually, their representative was lying when he admitted that they sold your private information to PIs
  2. 9NEWS points out that every denial of bad behaviour that Flock has made in the past was... a lie
 

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What can you, as an individual person, do to avoid this surveillance? Is there anything at all?
 
Smug Cat said:
Is there anything at all?
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Nope.
 
Of course Redditors are first and foremost concerned about how this could be used by ICE and how this shows China is not that bad next to the US rather the general massive privacy implications of linked facial recognition.
 
Smug Cat said:
What can you, as an individual person, do...? Is there anything at all?
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You can get a list of people who work for Flock Safety from the FEC website.

Mostly they donate to ACTBLUE so clicking 'Open Image' won't show their home addresses because the FEC is shit at processing those records, but if you go to checkmydonation.org and put in their name and state it'll let you get their address.
 
Palantir is also in cohoots with Nvidia.
They're using the best processors to spy on people.

Turning Enterprise Data into Decision Intelligence
On Tuesday, October 28 in Washington, DC, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced our partnership and how we’ll be making NVIDIA models available through Palantir AIP — and pushing Ontology to the edge through NVIDIA’s accelerated compute.
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All of this is being pushed because apparently there's an AI cold war with China.

Is it a surprise that state rights are being encroached by the current administration to further this AI spying shit? Palantir and Nvidia are both donors to that gay ballroom.
The company founded by a sodomite, named after something from LoTR, with products called "Gotham" and "antichrist" now has access to all your data.
There's legitimate uses of this technology, like in the medical field and to optimise things. Spying on people shouldn't be one of them.
 
AltisticRight said:
Palantir is also in cohoots with Nvidia... The company founded by a sodomite
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A sodomite with unnatural interests in acquiring the blood of... at best young adults, and whose former rent boys have a habit of 'suiciding' themselves.
Smug Cat said:
What can you, as an individual person, do to avoid this surveillance? Is there anything at all?
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If you don't live near Flock employees and own a balaclava and several spare license plates, if you're in a state with any sort of privacy law like California, you may be able to utilize that law to harass Flock or local authorities to remove your data. Also, such harassment makes it harder for Flock to operate, and disincentivizes local jurisdictions from installing their cameras, so it is objectively a very good thing.
 
De-Flock Resources

ALPR Map - deflock.me
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Flock cameras use easily identifiable Bluetooth device addresses that can also be found using crowdsourced maps like https://wigle.net/

alpr.watch - Automated feed of government actions both state and local regarding ALPR cameras

Common Questions, Arguments, & Responses when discussing Flock Surveillance​

 
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A sodomite with unnatural interests in acquiring the blood of... at best young adults, and whose former rent boys have a habit of 'suiciding' themselves.

If you don't live near Flock employees and own a balaclava and several spare license plates, if you're in a state with any sort of privacy law like California, you may be able to utilize that law to harass Flock or local authorities to remove your data. Also, such harassment makes it harder for Flock to operate, and disincentivizes local jurisdictions from installing their cameras, so it is objectively a very good thing.
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So where's the "resistance" to these ALPRs at? Why is there no #FuckFlock movement funded by the same people who are funding all of the 50501/No Kings rallies?Some thoughts I recently had on the situation.
clipartfan92 said:
They can whip people up into a frenzy to obstruct ICE agents and they could incite people into damaging Teslas and charging stations, but they can't incite people into destroying Flock cameras? Curious how some things work, isn't it?
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clipartfan92 said:
So where's the "resistance" to these ALPRs at? Why is there no #FuckFlock movement funded by the same people who are funding all of the 50501/No Kings rallies?Some thoughts I recently had on the situation.
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There's a few sites maintained by normal, centre-left and right people who are against mass surveillance and "pre-crimes" that you can look up and use.
The chairman of Palantir (Peter Thiel, anal sex loving Trumptard) and the CEO are both simps of daddy Trump and they donated to his stupid ballroom waste of space. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who the devils are.

No Kings is protesting the orange child molester who is in favour of all of this shit, and wants to turn your country in PRC v2.0 for corporations to own Xi. If you look up protest videos and photos, you will see plenty signs and banners against surveillance.
"Why don't you protest this thing, everything is now invalid" is such retarded niggercattle thought. You're being pinned against people who are against what you are against, simply because you believe (probably) they're protesting a politician you like (maybe, hope not).
Sure, antifa is scum but that doesn't mean when they say "mass surveillance is bad", it's automatically good because the current administration is using it to suppress their dissent. What happens when the pendulum swings over?

Break your conditioning.
 
AltisticRight said:
You're being pinned against people who are against what you are against, simply because you believe (probably) they're protesting a politician you like (maybe, hope not).
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The enemy of my enemy (the US government) is not my friend. I believe with all of my heart that all politicians should be hanged by the neck until dead, no exceptions. Don't mistake me for someone who sucks Zion Don's dick just because I post in A&N.
 

Surveillance as a Service Part 1: Flock Safety’s Transparency Problem​

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Spotting Flock Safety's Falcon Cameras​

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Every Flock device with an external battery uses Bluetooth to communicate health and safety data back to the camera. The Bluetooth radios use predictable naming schemes.

Penguin-NNNNNNNNNN (N = decimal digit)
FS Ext Battery



UPDATE 2025-03-19:


The Penguin battery firmware has been updated to remove "Penguin-" from the Bluetooth name, which is now simply:

NNNNNNNNNN (N = decimal digit)



To validate a specific device is a Penguin battery, look for a BTLE advertising packet with a Manufacturer Specific advertising data for XUNTONG (0x09C8), the data will include a serial number e.g. TN72023022000771

Packet Header: 0x2444 (PDU Type: SCAN_RSP, TxAdd: Random)
.... 0100 = PDU Type: 0x4 SCAN_RSP
...0 .... = Reserved: 0
..0. .... = Reserved: 0
.1.. .... = Tx Address: Random
0... .... = Reserved: 0
Length: 36
Advertising Address: d8:a0:d8:9f:4a:5e (d8:a0:d8:9f:4a:5e)
Scan Response Data: 1dffc809d8a0d89f4a5e2030502a544e3732303233303232303030373731
Advertising Data
Manufacturer Specific Length: 29
Type: Manufacturer Specific (0xff)
Company ID: XUNTONG (0x09c8)
Data: d8a0d89f4a5e2030502a544e3732303233303232303030373731



Using these patterns to search the WiGLE.Net data nets many more hits, 18,000+ in fact.



Some cameras have multiple external batteries. Some (very few) cameras are hardwired and have no external batteries. WiGLE.Net relies on citizen reported data, so not all cameras will be identified in this dataset.

Mapping this data shows us what is potentially the real extent of Flock device deployments across the country, that line up a lot better with we know about Flock customers from the Transparency Portals.
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HaveIBeenFlocked?
Enter a license plate to see if it's one of the 2,207,426 plates seen in the 40,337,431 Flock searches we know about.
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Flock's uh, 'Muskian' PR strategy of calling anyone who questions their universal stalking network a terrorist has its limits. Kudos to Staunton, VA Police Chief, Jim Williams, who has been with SPD since 1984 and Chief since 2003. After more than 400 Staunton citizens signed a petition opposing the Flock spy cameras, Williams committed to reconsider the cameras.

Then Flock's dipshit CEO Garrett Langley (3150 Habersham Road NW, Atlanta, GA 30305) sent out an unsolicited email saying "the company has never been hacked and does not share or resell data it collects" (which is to say, admitting that they have been hacked and that they share and resell everything they collect) and accusing those who signed the petition of conspiring to support criminals. For some reason, this did not go over well with publicly accountable public officials:
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Democracy manifest?
 
clipartfan92 said:
I'd be curious to know the amount of force to make those break, theoretically.
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From further research using various pictures and videos, they're just plain old hose clamps. Images are from the December 2025 news story below.
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On an unrelated note, if someone was wanting to remove a hose clamp that a previous homeowner installed on a chimney mount for an antenna, it would be pretty easy to rig up a Dremel on a stick to extend your reach and remove the unsightly antenna in seconds with the minimum amount of noise to disrupt your neighbors with.

Flock cameras destroyed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcBQ8HIyhBg (megalodon.jp)(PreserveTube)

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clipartfan92 said:
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The deflock.me crowdsourced map shows an approximate FOV of the cameras themselves. The problem is the height they're installed at. Some are low lying (9 to 12 ft) while others are installed higher up on existing utility poles, streelights, or traffic signal poles versus independently installed. They are sometimes installed next to existing traffic camera infrastructure.
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I would also suggest using OSM's (OpenStreetMap) direct API query tool, overpass-turbo, which can show you Flock cameras in conjunction with any other publicly crowdsourced traffic camera or CCTV. deflock.me is just a wrapper around the crowdsourced OSM data.

A layered map of something like Wigle + OSM's data would provide a much better picture of the threat environment.



Code: 
[out:json][timeout:25];
nwr["man_made"="surveillance"]({{bbox}});
out geom; 


{{style: 
*[surveillance:type=ALPR]
{ color: red; fill-color:red; }
*[surveillance:type=camera]
{ color: #377eb8; fill-color:#377eb8; }
}}
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A fun idea I had that I believe is perfectly legal is to make a simple bot that tracks new ALPR cameras being added to OSM, and find a way to get data of whatever jurisdictions email it is to annoy the shit out of them. Idk if a dataset of emails like that exists though.
 
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