53 cities dropped Flock Safety over federal data sharing, then handed identical pole mounts to Axon
In city council chambers across the country, officials have celebrated the removal of Flock Safety cameras as a privacy victory. Within months, Axon installation crews often appear on the same poles, bolting in replacement plate readers. According to TechTimes, 53 cities have canceled Flock contracts, citing unauthorized federal data access, false alerts, and mass surveillance of innocent drivers. Many aren’t abandoning license plate readers altogether — they’re switching vendors. The surveillance footprint isn’t shrinking. It’s rebranding.
How deadset the politicians are on instituting mass surveillance shows the pressure they’re getting from their donors. The Epstein class must really be afraid. Not surprising since you got 2:
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Unless we get the whole corporate surveillance industry under legislation control they will just get a lot better at hiding the cameras and devices.
Yeah that’s how this stuff seems to work. For some reason it’s really difficult for decentralized protest to scale its efforts in match of the scaled sophistication of their oppressors. Rather than protest getting more sophisticated, we just hope the protest gets bigger.
But honestly feel like a clear path through this would be to match their sophistication. Meaning, we need hactivist entities that specialize in hiding their identities, making public disclosures, and backing up their claims with actions.
The guy leaking the GTA6 material? He’s on the right track. We need more of that across various sectors.
I would argue it should work similarly to why the US struggles capitulating Iran — their guard is decentralized. They don’t need instruction from the top to carry out support.