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My point wasn't that Flock allows this, but that it allows an entire class of surveillance that was previously not available.

• Manuel_D 4mo ago
  What wasn't previously available? Automated license plate readers have been around since the 70s, and started being widely deployed in the 1990s as technology got cheaper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recognition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recogni... It's not new tech.
  • Ancapistani 4mo ago
    The closest thing to it was repo companies sharing data. This is very much a new thing.
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