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    [OC] Count of OpenStreetMap Automatic License Plate Reader Surveillance Elements every 10 Miles in the Continental US - 10/20/2025
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    [OC] Count of OpenStreetMap Automatic License Plate Reader Surveillance Elements every 10 Miles in the Continental US – 10/20/2025

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    1. geoiao on

      overpass api python script used to scrape osm data for surveillance-alpr elements and their coordinates in conus, mapped using QGIS

      learn more about the massive uptick in surveillance on deflock
      [https://deflock.me/](https://deflock.me/)

    2. RelativeMotion1 on

      This map includes EZPass toll ALPRs… Are we considering those to be the same level of invasiveness as Flock? And if so, what is a reasonable workaround aside from returning to tollbooths?

      I’m definitely anti-Flock camera, which is why I’m mentioning this. Adding necessary toll cameras to this, IMO, waters down the point.

    4. fuckofakaboom on

      License plate readers have been in use for 40 years. Everybody carries a gps tracker in their pocket. Banks and credit card companies know everything we buy. Every other house has a door bell camera. Smart speakers are coming up on a $50 billion market cap worldwide. “Smart” internet connected devices fill our homes. Every new car knows where it’s being driven. Everything we do online has been tracked for decades. Shit, anybody that uses a Roomba has had the INSIDE of their home mapped.

      Flock cameras suck donkey balls. But. Privacy has been an illusion for a long long time.

    5. SirBrian_ on

      That’s an interesting patch between Tulsa and Kansas City. Didn’t think there would be a reason to have so many in that area

    6. wileysegovia on

      Sooo … once driverless cars are common … there will be a push to snap to “only driverless cars.” Because safety.

      So, when that happens … no more privacy, right? Every single trip by anyone, will be logged somewhere and could be discoverable.