Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/56810574

The article itself is from August, but after seeing Flock cameras at a local Lowe’s store that were missing from the DeFlock map, I thought it’d be worth bringing increased attention to such companies contributing to the propagation of Flock cameras. If there’s a Home Depot or Lowe’s near you that’s not on the DeFlock map already, it might just not have been added yet.

  • toynbee@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The Home Depot nearest to where I used to live had cameras in the tools section … Which is fine, but whenever they noticed a person in view, they would turn on the attached screens and play a tone every ten seconds or so. I guess it was to remind you that you were being surveilled?

    Anyway, I always found them intrusive, annoying and offensive. I’m not surprised they’ve become part of a larger problem.