The dominant maker of these cameras is Flock Safety, an Atlanta company with more than 80,000 license-plate readers across over 5,000 communities. The cameras themselves are almost dumb. The intelligence lives in a product Flock unveiled in early 2025 called Nova, and Nova is where a car becomes a person.
Flock describes Nova as a way to unify its camera data with police records so investigators can solve cases faster. The blunter description came from inside the company. In leaked internal audio reported by 404 Media, a Flock employee said the tool lets users “jump from LPR to person” and link that person to others “through marriage or through gang affiliation,” adding, “there’s very powerful linking.” Internal messages said Nova draws on about 20 toggleable data sources.
So a single camera hit becomes a seed: your name, your address, your relatives, your phone, the people you live with, mapped automatically, in seconds, with no warrant.
Plate readers tell you where a car has been. Nova tells you who the person is, who they know, and how to reach them.
There is an unresolved and serious dispute about how far Nova’s data reaches. Flock published a rebuttal in May 2025 insisting Nova would never supply data from hacked breaches.
But in December 2025, a security researcher analyzing Nova’s own front-end code reported a live data source labeled “Dark Data,” with fields for Social Security numbers, credit cards and crypto wallets, the vocabulary of breach archives, and said routine phone searches auto-called it.
You need to understand, reader, that if you've ever clicked on something, especially when a panel suddenly popped up and offered you a way out of it without refreshing or closing tab and coming back ... you have been surveilled and your visits and habits noted.
Further ... do you really believe that this laughable incognito rubbish really is incognito? The most each of us can do is minimise ... don't do naughty things which are unnecessary, keep your nose clean, a veritable new saint and start to understand things such as dark web. To this point, most people have got as far as VPN and encryption.
Automatic Number Plate recognition cameras have been placed an major intersections and the entry/exit points of cities for a couple of decades or more.
ReplyDeleteThat's why in high profile cases, the Police often quote a vehicle last seen in such-and-such area.
Not from eye-witness reports, but from ANPR data. Then they rely on eye-witness reports of that vehicle to narrow down the destination of the vehicle and any route they took between the ANPR cameras.
Inside cities, CCTV is more prevalent, surveilling pedestrians everywhere. If the Police had the resources they could track you anywhere. The limiting factor is human resources.
But now we have A. I......
And as for my browsing history, I'm probably the sort of right-leaning dirty degenerate that will be first into the wood-chipper come the revolution.
The fairly recent facial recognition cameras have been praised as helping to lower crime and detect known or wanted persons, but are as much use as a chocolate fireguard until a ban on masks is introduced. Right hand, left hand thinking by the usual numpties who never seem to talk to each other.
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