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Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They also capture your car’s make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points. These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles—regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. While these systems can be useful for tracking stolen cars or wanted individuals, they are mostly used to track the movements of innocent people.

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Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops (www.404media.co)

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The article itself is from August, but after seeing Flock cameras at a local Lowe's store that were missing from the DeFlock map, I thought it'd be worth bringing increased attention to such companies contributing to the propagation of Flock cameras. If there's a Home Depot or Lowe's near you that's not on the DeFlock map already, it might just not have been added yet.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Worked at Lowe's last year and was stunned with their surveillance capabilities. When known shoplifters pulled into the parking lot the manager in charge of security got an automatic ping from the license plate reader. They even had nicknames for the worst offenders! "Dumb and Dumber just pulled in." There was facial recognition built in, but I can't remember enough to talk about it accurately.

Did you know you can walk in, grab anything not bolted down and walk right out the door with no challenge? If it's a large enough item they'll call the cops, but they reserve that for large thefts, not power drills. Otherwise they just file your face and license plate in the system as a red flag.