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Re:A noise attack on license plate readers (Flock AI) by Rhea_Karty on Friday September 05, 2025 @10:12PM (#45145981)
Background: from this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ)

Floxk AI is a startup that apparently runs highly suspicious police data collection services. As a fun bonus, it sells this data to private bidders and retains no liability for any mess-ups.

Apparently, it uses a Bluetooth system to relay some of this information. And seems to generally have awful security...

Any thoughts? Or further projects on this?

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Re:A noise attack on license plate readers (Flock AI) by toomuchtodo on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:06PM (#45146277)
Flock Safety

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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Re:A noise attack on license plate readers (Flock AI) by Rhea_Karty on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:16PM (#45146324)
A lot of news... not too much technical.

The real scandal seems to be the use of data brokers' data, re-selling/owning the data collected from publicly funded cameras, and also using bluetooth and ostensibly other outdated security.

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Re:A noise attack on license plate readers (Flock AI) by toomuchtodo on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:42PM (#45146411)
The scandals you mention have been reported on in depth by 404media, which has led to state and congressional investigation. A Google search will provide technical details about their cameras and the Android/hardware stack that operates them.
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