"The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has rounded up several of these counter surveillance projects, and perhaps unsurprisingly many of these have to do with Flock, best known for its automated license plate reader (ALPR). Flock operates the largest network of surveillance cameras in America, and, while it has contracts with thousands of police departments and municipalities across the US, sometimes ICE gains access to this footage, according to US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and those who have looked into Flock's misuse."
"One YouTuber discovered a way to prevent your license plate being recorded and logged by Flock's AI readers by screen printing "tiny bits" of adversarial noise and putting the sticker on your license plate. These "abstract invisible license plate overlay patterns ... cannot be detected by humans but make license plate recognition systems utterly shit the bed," Benn Jordan said on his video. We'll note that this is illegal in California and some other states, and The Register does not advocate breaking the law."
"Jordan also uncovered a massive Flock security snafu involving hundreds of misconfigured Flock cameras that exposed non-password protected admin interfaces to the public internet, allowing anyone to view live surveillance feeds, download videos, and view logs. "Like a Netflix for stalkers," is how Jordan described it."
ICE operated a multi-billion-dollar surveillance technology program. Flock runs the largest network of automated license plate readers (ALPR) and surveillance cameras in the United States and holds contracts with thousands of police departments and municipalities. Investigations and Senator Ron Wyden indicate ICE sometimes gains access to Flock footage. Civil liberties groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union have pursued legal action over alleged abuses. Hackers and privacy advocates have developed countermeasures such as adversarial overlay stickers and mapping tools. Security researchers discovered misconfigured Flock cameras exposing live feeds, downloads, and logs to the public internet.
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