Of course the people with all the Hank Hills coming in are fucking snitches and Nazi symps
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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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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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.
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There's Flock cameras at two of the three entrances to the parking lot at my local home depot.
It's probably 3 of 3 but nobody's noticed the third one yet.
They're pretty chonky. It's a decent sized box with solar panels on them. The ones shown on deflock.me are pretty noticeable, I've looked pretty hard around the 3rd entrance. There's a grocery store on that side and a few other smaller stores that share the parking lot.
I could be wrong, but I think any camera with an Internet connection could be a Flock camera. You don't need solar panels or "chonk" (i.e. batteries) if it's just hooked up to grid power.
That's true, but both of the ones shown on deflock are chonky. I recently read that Ring doorbells are giving their data to Flock, probably other companies are too. So, we're fucked. That being said, all of the cameras made by Flock are chonky. I'm guessing they have some compute in the box to do some AI recognition onboard, probably a 5G antenna and a battery so they can function in a power outage.
Big business and law enforcement hand in hand like always.
Also Meijer
And Kroger. Also, hello fellow midwesterner!
Yup all the Lowe's and HDs near me have them. I've been debating hitting them with high powered lasers or paintball guns, but part of me is worried about being disappeared over it.
??? This doesn't even make business sense. They're arresting their biggest customers/the labor all their contractors use