‘Constant surveillance is pushing us toward an authoritarian state’: voters demand regulation of Flock cameras
At first Matías Núñez began encountering online reports and citizen complaints about the proliferation of Flock cameras, the private automatic license plate reader service that has been contracted by police departments, universities, neighborhood associations and businesses across the United States. And then one day he found two of those devices in his own neighborhood in the coastal city of Hollywood, Florida: “I realized that every time I pass by, they record my location, and that they’re cropping up everywhere in my area. Once you see them, you start noticing them everywhere.”

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