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Americans are destroying license-plate cameras as surveillance backlash grows (archive.is)

submitted 4 days ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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Flock cameras have been shot, spray-painted and cut down as how-to videos spread online. “People are fed up,” one suspect said.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 101 points 4 days ago (3 children)

They are not license plate cameras stop calling them that you fucking idiots

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 22 points 4 days ago

Yah my understanding is they so sooooo much more than just record license plates

[–] ElChinchilla@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Just like any camera could be a license plate camera, however most cameras are not linked to a vast network specifically designed to trace identifiers and support soft suppression of individual freedoms. The next tea party is going to look weird.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works -2 points 3 days ago

It's what they are marketed as to the public and there really isn't a visible difference between sending all data to a cloud to proccess license plates vs sending it to a cloud to track everyones movements everywhere.