America's Secret Police (Part 20)
Unlike standard traffic cameras the FLOCK automated license plate readers don’t just capture the plates of cars caught speeding or running red lights, they capture every car passing through or parked near an intersection where they are installed, and they aren’t limited to catching people speeding or running red lights but can be used to track any single vehicle within a jurisdiction or through multiple jurisdictions through an AI software that creates a vehicle fingerprint and pools it with others in a national database. FLOCK automatic license plate readers allow the same level surveillance afforded to police through cell site records and GPS tracking devices attached to cars albeit without a warrant which is required to access cell site records by the Carpenter ruling and install a GPS tracking device by the ruling in U.S. v. Jones. Warrantless surveillance is always ripe for abuse and LEOs in Kansas have already demonstrated this by using the FLOCK system to track and stalk ex-girlfriends and ex-wives outside their jurisdiction. Police in California have likewise validated concerns about FLOCK being used to conduct warrantless surveillance of any one’s movement across the country by sharing vehicle data collected from automated license plate readers in their jurisdictions with police departments and agencies outside the state.
With FLOCK automated license plate readers being installed in 4,000 cities across 42 states covering almost 70% of the U.S. population, according to their CEO, this form of surveillance is likely to become just as effective as police having unrestricted access to the cell site location data of every phone or having GPS tracking devices installed on every car without any restrictions or the general requirement of a warrant, allowing them to conduct fishing expeditions on any number of persons to their heart’s content. And just because this technology is used to catch drug traffickers, thieves, and other assorted criminals who aren’t you doesn’t mean it won't be turned against you. If there are any more lockdowns in our future, FLOCK will allow authorities to enforce interstate and intrastate travel restrictions and punish anyone they deem to be engaged in “non-essential” travel and “non-essential” work. And if personal carbon allowances, which CNN and the rest of MSM have now openly called for, ever become a thing these automated license plate readers will be one of the many tools used to enforce carbon rations. Since the vehicle fingerprints in the FLOCK database contain information about the make, model, and year of the vehicle they are sufficient to know the fuel economy and average gas mileage and calculate carbon emissions used to travel.