A license plate number, which is connected to a well-structured and maintained database by the State, is always going to be leagues easier to identify someone than a grainy camera photo of the side of someone's face as they pass by.
For evidence of this look no further than ICE: as part of their totalitarian ethnic cleansing exercise, they've been tasked to round up mass numbers of people off the street. Their tactics, at least the area I'm in, have largely shifted towards going after people living in more sparse suburbs, because they're more car-dependent and thus easier to track and abduct.
ICE is in fact one of Flock's biggest customers: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/flock-roundup
Look, I don't intend any shade at being someone who seeks off-grid self-sufficiency: It's the "suburban" lifestyle that I think really ensures the worst of both worlds here.
Globe99
npub147…paq44
2026-03-11 17:37:16 CET
in reply to nevent1q…tkvn
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