I want to fight the good fight but this is just going to be yet another company or something.
Something Flock did (or didn't do, ex -- not enough political bribes) is why they are in the crosshairs. Not because the citizens are pissed off.
Look at the SAVE Act. The vast majority of American citizens want it but the "elected officials" are doing everything they can to block it.
Any time you see the gov going after a company. It's not because they are listening to you. (At least not at a national level, sometimes local movement works).
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>Lee Schmidt and Crystal Arrington just wanted to drive around Norfolk, Virginia, without a government contractor logging every trip. Instead, they became the named plaintiffs in one of the most consequential Fourth Amendment fights in the country, and a Supreme Court ruling that has nothing to do with license plates just walked into their case like an uninvited but extremely useful guest.
Back up to 2023, when Norfolk police partnered with Flock Safety to bolt roughly 175 automated license plate reader camera clusters around the city. These aren't your grandfather's speed cameras. Flock's hardware pairs infrared imaging with onboard AI to log a plate number, timestamp, and location for every passing car, then builds what the company calls a Vehicle Fingerprint, cataloging color, make, body style, and even bumper stickers so investigators can search for a car even when they don't have a plate number. Norfolk holds that data for 21 days, the maximum allowed under Virginia law, and officers can query it without a warrant.
I want to fight the good fight but this is just going to be yet another company or something.
Something Flock did (or didn't do, ex -- not enough political bribes) is why they are in the crosshairs. Not because the citizens are pissed off.
Look at the SAVE Act. The vast majority of American citizens want it but the "elected officials" are doing everything they can to block it.
Any time you see the gov going after a company. It's not because they are listening to you. (At least not at a national level, sometimes local movement works).
Archive: https://archive.today/5KFPH
From the post:
>>Lee Schmidt and Crystal Arrington just wanted to drive around Norfolk, Virginia, without a government contractor logging every trip. Instead, they became the named plaintiffs in one of the most consequential Fourth Amendment fights in the country, and a Supreme Court ruling that has nothing to do with license plates just walked into their case like an uninvited but extremely useful guest.
Back up to 2023, when Norfolk police partnered with Flock Safety to bolt roughly 175 automated license plate reader camera clusters around the city. These aren't your grandfather's speed cameras. Flock's hardware pairs infrared imaging with onboard AI to log a plate number, timestamp, and location for every passing car, then builds what the company calls a Vehicle Fingerprint, cataloging color, make, body style, and even bumper stickers so investigators can search for a car even when they don't have a plate number. Norfolk holds that data for 21 days, the maximum allowed under Virginia law, and officers can query it without a warrant.
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