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Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates
Flock Cameras, a law enforcement surveillance platform, can identify and track vehicles using physical characteristics like decals, bumper stickers, and roof racks when license plates are unavailable or obscured. The company markets this "Vehicle Fingerprint" capability to police as a way to build cases with incomplete plate information and track multiple vehicles suspected of moving together.
Why it matters: Law enforcement and civil liberties practitioners should understand that surveillance systems can now track vehicles without traditional identifiers, expanding monitoring scope beyond license plate readers and raising questions about accuracy, mission creep, and oversight of pattern-based vehicle tracking.
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