The first time the Minneapolis activist known as “NoMark” targeted a Flock camera, he waited an hour for the right moment, pacing among bushes near a pole holding the device. “I was just so nervous,” he later recalled.
NoMark, who has built a large online following for his masked vigilante actions, climbed the pole, taped over the lens, and cut the power wires before fleeing. He has since taken down more than a dozen of the cameras and says the work now takes only a few minutes.
Flock’s black cameras, paired with solar panels and mounted on poles, photograph vehicles and compare the images against vast databases. The company, based in Georgia and valued at $8.4 billion, says its systems scan license plates billions of times each month in roughly 6,000 communities across nearly every state.
Critics argue the technology enables warrantless tracking of ordinary people in public spaces. Flock maintains the devices are not mass-surveillance tools and cannot track individuals....<<<Read More>>>...
