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by Ancapistani 3 hours ago
My point wasn't that Flock allows this, but that it allows an entire class of surveillance that was previously not available.
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Manuel_D 3 hours ago
What wasn't previously available? Automated license plate readers have been around since the 70s, and started being widely deployed in the 1990s as technology got cheaper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recogni...

It's not new tech.

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Ancapistani 3 hours ago
The closest thing to it was repo companies sharing data.

This is very much a new thing.

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Manuel_D 27 minutes ago
If by "new" you mean "over three decades old".
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