Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates

Collection of short posts highlighting expanding surveillance capabilities, privacy harms, and new security weaknesses. Key items: Flock’s "vehicle fingerprint" can identify and track cars without license plates via decals, racks, and other visual cues—searchable by law enforcement; AI advances enable natural-language search and enhanced analysis of video feeds and are being prototyped for police/military use (including Meta facial-recognition experiments); a ~1M-passport dataset was leaked online from a low-value authentication breach; Papa John’s and ad partners are using shopping data to预测/