Surveillance

This comes from one of our chaps across the way who shall remain nameless but regulars over there know who it is.  The article the quote is from covers various aspects of surveillance, so lets focus on just this for now.  It refers to a firm in the States but bright minds instantly realise how this quickly becomes Westwide:

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.