❄️ NC ICE Watch Hotline / La Línea de Defensa: 📞336-543-0353
Is your vehicle one of the millions known to have been searched by law enforcement?
"Flock Group, Inc. (dba "Flock Safety"), a for-profit Delaware corporation and tech company, provides a large-scale "surveillance as a service" system marketed to police agencies and private communities....These results are records of searches performed by Flock's customers. The license plates and search reasons are what someone manually entered into the system. The results don't show when or if your vehicle passed one of Flock's estimated 90,000+ devices, or what was shown as the result."
What are ALPRs? (website) by DeFlock
Map of Flock cameras (website)
Identifying License Plate Readers (website)
State Surveillance
How to Identify Surveillance Equipment (website)
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by Deflock
Surveillance Primers (website)
Protecting Against Spyware (website)
Field Guide to Police Surveillance (website)
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by Electronic Frontier Foundation
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
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Research Reports and Projects (website)
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Deportation Data Centers (website)
The High-Tech Tools Police Can Use to Surveil Protesters (website)
Read about the Mobile Fortify app (website) which is being used by immigration agents to scan faces and fingerprints
How to Detect a Stingray Device: Detection Apps & IMSI Catcher Protection Explained in 2026 (website)
Opt Out: "Opt Out of Biometric Theft, Facial Recognition Tech, and Data Scraping" (website)
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by Keep Beyond
Hitchhiker's Guide (to privacy and anonymity) (website)
Minimise Surveillance Risk on Social Media (Instagram)
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by Cyberlixir
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Surveillance Self-Defense (website)
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How the cops can get your data (website)
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Street Level Surveillance (website)
Facing On-Campus Surveillance in College (website)
Stop Hunting Sheep: A Guide to Creating Safer Networks (website)
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying (website)
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by EFF
Click Graphic to enlarge or learn more from @therealdeflock on X
Facial Recognition
How to Defeat Facial Recognition: What Actually Works in 2025 by State of Surveillance
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Note - these steps and resources cannot guarantee your anonymity
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Stay informed by researching whether wearing masks at protests is legal in your city/county/state.
Where is your photo/image being gathered or collected?
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Closed-circuit television (e.g., stores)
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Traffic cameras
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Airports cameras/face scanners
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Social media
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Media
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DMV
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Getting an identification card
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Mugshots
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Job applications
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Applying for a passport or visa
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Enrolling in TSA's Pre-Check Program
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Police photos
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Drone footage
Where might your image/photo might be stored? Examples:
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Local enforcement databases
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i.e., CJLEADS in North Carolina
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FBI’s Next Generation Identification database
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National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
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Maintained by the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division
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Used by over 100,000 criminal justice and law enforcement agencies
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DMV database
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U.S. Department of State Passport and Visa photo database
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Homeland Security IDEN/HART database
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idiCORE
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CARFAX
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CLEAR by Thomson Reuters
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LinX (Law Enforcement Information Exchange)
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Police2Police by Central Square Technologies
Who is selling facial recognition software to law enforcement?
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Clearview AI (read more by SASSI)
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Who else is surveilling you?
Read more about facial recognition technology by EFF
Who's Surveilling You?
Companies and Tools Used by Law Enforcement for State Surveillance
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Axon (body cameras)
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B12 Technologies (iris-scanning)
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Cellebrite (data extraction) (read more by SASSI)
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Clearview AI (facial recognition) (read more by SASSI)
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DataWorks (biometrics/tattoo)
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Elsag (license plates)
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Elsag SignalTrace (read more by @therealDeFlock on X)
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Face Forensics (biometric/tattoo)
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Finaldata
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Flock Safety (license plates) (read more by SASSI)
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Fusus (real time crime center) (read more by SASSI)
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General Atomics (drones)
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Idemia (biometric/tattoo)
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Jenoptic (license plates)
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L3Harris
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Motorola Solutions (license plates)
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Vigilant Solutions (subsidiary)
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NEC/Mobile Fortify (biometric) (read more by Wired)
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Neurotechnology (biometric/tattoo)
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Palantir
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Elite App (read more at The Guardian)
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DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir (by Wired)
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Paragon Solutions
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Graphite spyware
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ICE Just Admitted It Uses Spyware That Reads Your Encrypted Messages (by State of Surveillance)
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PenLink (read more at newser or 404media)
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Tangles (AI-driven OSINT platform, online data analysis)
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Webloc (cell phone travel history tracker)
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Perceptics (license plates)
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Peregrine (data aggregator) (read more by SASSI)
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Rank One Computing (biometric/tattoo)
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Rekor (license plates)
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SoundThinking
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ShotSpotter (gunshot detection) (read more by SASSI)
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Skydio (drones)
Sources:
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The powerful tools in ICE's arsenal to track suspects -- and protesters (Washington Post)
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Surveillance Primers (website) by SASSI
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Field Guide to Police Surveillance (website) by Electronic Frontier Foundation
Crime Pays in the USA
(major players in state surveillance)
Clearview AI—Controversial Facial Recognition Firm—Fined $33 Million For ‘Illegal Database’ (by Robert Hart | Forbes | 2024)
Learn more about why Flock Safety is being rejected by communities all over the country: Flock Rebellion by State of Surveillance
Learn about a biometric privacy lawsuit against Motorola (link opens in LinkedIn)
...and many more
Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)
Source: Henry Taylor/Chapel Hill Media Group
For more examples, see "How to Identify Surveillance Equipment" by Deflock.
Mobile Security Trailers
Mobile Security Trailers are often seen in commercial parking lots. They may have integrated license plate readers, talk-down speakers, panoramic video cameras, deterrence lights, AI functions, and may also be sending live footage to law enforcement or businesses.
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