| ▲ | Ancapistani 2 hours ago | |||||||
My point wasn't that Flock allows this, but that it allows an entire class of surveillance that was previously not available. | ||||||||
| ▲ | Manuel_D 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
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_recogni... It's not new tech. | ||||||||
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