Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida
St. Lucie County, Florida found roughly a dozen Flock license plate cameras installed without county permission and with no identifiable owner. The origin of the cameras remains unknown, raising concerns about who is collecting surveillance data and under what authority.
Why this matters: Unowned surveillance cameras in a public space mean someone is collecting data on drivers with no accountability and no clear legal basis. Nobody applied for permission. Nobody signed anything. The county just found them. That is a serious problem. License plate readers build a detailed record of where you go and when. If no one knows who owns these cameras, no one knows who has that data, where it goes, or what it is used for. Permitted or not, that data is real and it is already collected.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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