@sfchronicle: San Francisco began installing Flock Safety's automated license plate readers in 2024, after city leaders announced a camera deployment plan to target retail theft and a number of other crimes. Since then, 482 of these surveillance tools have popped up across the city — bringing a number of privacy concerns with them. Read more of our tech coverage at the link in bio. 🎥/🎬: Izzy Nunes #sfchronicle #bayarea #sanfrancisco #flocksafety #publicsafety
Love that they're used to catch criminals. Even the criminals are complaining that it's harder to perform criminal acts
2026-07-28 00:51:00
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Wish I Was A Lesbian :
They are NOT merely license plate readers. Language matters. Abusive police use these for abusing their partners.
2026-07-24 17:28:57
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ᴜʀꜱᴜꜱ :
probably should mention that the organized retail theft thing was way overblown
2026-07-24 19:53:04
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Kmoe :
But they won’t use this for identifying/tracking stolen vehicles. I got three tickets for a moped which was registered as stolen.
2026-07-25 02:14:41
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user100748372422 :
But i thought voting Democrat would save us from all the bad things?
2026-07-24 18:30:15
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He whom remains :
Yet, crime is still high
2026-07-26 07:20:34
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Corey :
It's so crazy that this started with retail theft propaganda
2026-07-24 21:32:53
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itzbrandox :
Deflock SF
2026-07-24 19:18:16
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daniel aalfs :
but they can't find my stolen ebike 😏
2026-07-24 20:23:19
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Ariola_777 :
What Do you got to hide
2026-07-24 21:04:04
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MHKuma :
What can we do to make sure that they are taken down?!?!
2026-07-25 10:50:17
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Olive :
They better have a 100% solve rate for missing and murdered people.
2026-07-25 09:16:18
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JasmineKazooie :
And once you notice them, you really notice them
2026-07-24 18:19:59
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𝕵𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖆𝕯𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 :
💩 And this reporter is driving a Nazi car with cameras and it's uploading back to Tesla/fascist MAGA bro bootlicker Elon 😈 make it make sense don't be a hypocrite ✅
2026-07-24 19:13:01
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Nullrecursion90 :
Please stop calling them license plate readers. They track your devices and record video of people, they're placing them in children's play areas and other areas that don't have any cars
2026-07-25 16:12:11
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Vrielb :
Dude…. The search being flock cameras home depot and I’m literally sitting at the Home Depot parking lot rn looking at a flock camera…
2026-07-24 19:07:33
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✨🧿VEE🧿✨❌️ :
shouldn't be allowed
2026-07-24 19:00:34
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maidbeuwosvjsu :
This is one thing that both political sides of the American public’s population can agree is an overstep
2026-07-24 18:45:49
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Me :
And this is the crap they say they need data centers for, of which ruin our water, air, quality of life for us and animals, and costs us higher bills. 👎
2026-07-24 18:50:30
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shadow :
BAN FLOCK
2026-07-24 19:02:26
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𝕶𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖆 :
Why didn’t we get to vote on this
2026-07-25 01:25:10
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reapinginthevalley :
Too many feds and bots in this comment section…
2026-07-25 18:36:44
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Contrarian :
They melt pretty easily
2026-07-25 04:17:00
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karmapoliceasleepdeux :
They gave us drop for data brokers but what about this invasive surveillance?
2026-07-24 20:16:49
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Beckham & Ella :
When there was a breach/ improperly accessed data, SF media reported data was not accessed from flock systems. As you explain no, it was transferred to San Francisco systems and can be accessed there. And as you note SF keeps data longer.
2026-07-24 23:28:34
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