Replying to @⁨Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club⁩

  • If they’re innocent they have nothing to worry about or hide
  • This will help prove their innocence if suspected of any wrongdoing
  • It’s public information
  • It’s not illegal
  • He’s not tracking the police officers, just their vehicles
  • When you’re in public you have no reasonable right to privacy

I’m sure I missed some BS excuses used against citizens.

Replying to @⁨Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club⁩

If you drive in an area covered by an ALPR-networked camera, your vehicle’s movements may already be in a searchable database. As the tools for building these systems become more widely available, the pressure for clearer rules about who may collect vehicle-location data, on whom, and for how long is unlikely to ease

Two website to be stay informed where these cameras are located in your neighbor and province.

maps.panopti.ca/?lat=43.7873&lng=-79.5500&zoom=10…

flockcameralocations.com/locations/canada

The fivty camera in Brampton are already operational since March 2026 from what I can gather. Not to mention the countless others spread around the province.

Replying to @⁨Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club⁩

If you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear, and other similar sentiments:

Actually, when they’re observing your behavior, anything you do is suspicious. Not suspicious of a specific crime, but suspicious generally, and they will use this to invoke probable cause and search you or investigate you.

And they will find crimes. Stupid, petty infractions that shouldn’t be crimes, but they’ll find them. Or if they don’t like your social media opinions, they’ll make some up.

And they will rob you of any liquid assets (or sufficiently liquefiable assets, or anything else on you they want. And they’ll justify it as asset forfeiture. And it will be very difficult to get it back.

So, every citizen has a terrible lot to fear just by being observed by law enforcement. And mass surveillance, such as ALPRs, keeps you in their view.

Replying to @⁨Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club⁩

Would be pretty cool if we could build a crowdsourced network of these that do basically exactly what flock does, but just to keep a constantly updated public database of the location of all cop cars, hopefully with the ability to associate cars to specific officers with names, photos and badge numbers.

We could call them “drove cameras.” A drove is a term that refers to a group of pigs.

Replying to @⁨raspirate@lemmy.world⁩

You know what, this could work because we have a private jet locator for everyone who’s flying a private jet. Why not the police cars? What because it would be a violation of public safety, well maybe that case can be used against flock now.

The police are worried about their data and have the authority to shut down a private citizens user-based, license plate reader, specifically because of the data usage going to fuck knows where. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THE COMMON MAN WAS WORRIED ABOUT WITH FLOCK!!!

Now you tell me when that becomes more important for the pigs to have their data protected. A majority of them already made it so that public scanners can no longer access the police scanners. They’ve taken away a facet of public safety by removing scanning for them, so if you wanted to get away with it; You can possibly make this into an app and say it’s for, “public safety.”