{"id":7529,"date":"2025-10-09T05:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/flok-license-plate-surveillance-html\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T05:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:03:27","slug":"flok-license-plate-surveillance-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/flok-license-plate-surveillance-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Flok License Plate Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Flok License Plate Surveillance<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The company Flok is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jalopnik.com\/1982690\/police-flock-cameras-sued-for-tracking-man-526-times\/\">surveilling us<\/a> as we drive:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A retired veteran named Lee Schmidt wanted to know how often Norfolk, Virginia\u2019s 176 Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader cameras were tracking him. The answer, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26101033-norfolk_flock\/\">U.S. District Court<\/a> lawsuit filed in September, was more than four times a day, or 526 times from mid-February to early July. No, there\u2019s no warrant out for Schmidt\u2019s arrest, nor is there a warrant for Schmidt\u2019s co-plaintiff, Crystal Arrington, whom the system tagged 849 times in roughly the same period.<\/p>\n<p>You might think this sounds like it violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects American citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures without probable cause. Well, so does the American Civil Liberties Union. Norfolk, Virginia Judge Jamilah LeCruise also agrees, and in 2024 she ruled that plate-reader data obtained without a search warrant couldn\u2019t be used against a defendant in a robbery case.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/10\/flok-license-plate-surveillance.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flok License Plate Surveillance The company Flok is surveilling us as we drive: A retired veteran named Lee Schmidt wanted to know how often Norfolk, Virginia\u2019s 176 Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader cameras were tracking him. The answer, according to a U.S. District Court lawsuit filed in September, was more than four times a day, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,472,341,457,83,85,86,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-7529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-cameras","category-cars","category-courts","category-privacy","category-surveillance","category-tracking","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}