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Flock Safety is an Orwellian mass surveillance program using artificial intelligence automatic license plate readers connected to a nationwide database. Reason’s Bess Byers covered it last year, and a lot has changed.

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FLOCK OFF! License-plate-reading "Flock" cameras and government surveillance nets are taking over our neighborhoods. If you’ve been looking for a solution to this overreach, the answer is simple: you. If a #Flock camera or any government surveillance device appeared anywhere near my property, a few masked individuals would pay it a visit. By the next morning, that camera would be gone. Good news is that the resistance is already organized and moving: Operation Flock Out is actively targeting these surveillance grids nationwide. Knock the Flock is executing the same mission across the Midwest. Two separate groups, one unified goal: Remove every single Flock camera by 2027. For the first time in history, the surveillance state is facing real, organized, multi-regional resistance. Blessed are the privacy makers.

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