美国人正在破坏 Flock 监控摄像头。
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

原始链接: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/americans-are-destroying-flock-surveillance-cameras/

公众对Flock Safety公司的愤怒正在增长,该公司在美国拥有近8万个车牌识别摄像头,导致一波针对其摄像头的破坏浪潮。担忧集中在Flock的数据被ICE(美国移民及海关执法局)使用并协助驱逐出境,尽管该公司声称没有直接的数据共享。 报告显示,地方警察部门*正在*与联邦当局共享访问权限,从而加强了对个人的监视和追踪。这引发了直接行动,在加利福尼亚州、康涅狄格州、伊利诺伊州、俄勒冈州和弗吉尼亚州等地,摄像头被砸毁、砍断和喷漆。 虽然几十个城市已经拒绝了Flock的合同,并且一些警察部门正在限制联邦访问,但其他地方则面临着由公民领导的抵抗。这些事件凸显了日益严重的隐私问题以及反对广泛监控技术运动的不断壮大。Flock尚未公开说明破坏的程度。

美国各地出现公民破坏 Flock 监控摄像头的趋势,引发讨论,如 Hacker News 报道。这些摄像头由执法部门使用,因隐私问题和过度干预而面临抵制。 评论员认为法治体系正在瓦解,他们提出的解决方案包括企业道德行为、公众压力和立法行动。然而,许多人承认,当其他途径失败时,直接行动虽然不可取,但可能是必要的。 一个关键情绪是,那些优先考虑传统自由的人与那些更倾向于威权安全方式的人之间的分歧日益扩大。一些人担心这两派之间的冲突会升级。讨论还涉及摄像头易受损的问题,并警告不要使用激光,因为存在安全风险。这种情况凸显了公众对广泛监控日益增长的不满。
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Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license plate readers aid U.S. immigration authorities and deportations.

Flock is the Atlanta-based surveillance startup valued at $7.5 billion a year ago and a maker of license plate readers. It has faced criticism for allowing federal authorities access to its massive network of nationwide license plate readers and databases at a time when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are increasingly relying on data to raid communities as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Flock cameras allow authorities to track where people go and when by taking photos of their license plates from thousands of cameras located across the United States. Flock claims it doesn’t share data with ICE directly, but reports show that local police have shared their own access to Flock cameras and its databases with federal authorities.

While some communities are calling on their cities to end their contracts with Flock, others are taking matters into their own hands.

Merchant reports instances of broken and smashed Flock cameras in La Mesa, California, just weeks after the city council approved the continuation of Flock cameras deployed in the city, despite a clear majority of attendees favoring their shutdown. A local report cited strong opposition to the surveillance technology, with residents raising privacy concerns.

Other cases of vandalism have stretched from California and Connecticut, to Illinois and Virginia. In Oregon, six license plate scanning cameras on poles were cut down and at least one spray painted. A note left at the base of the severed poles said, “Hahaha get wrecked ya surveilling fucks,” reports Merchant.

According to DeFlock, a project aimed at mapping license plate readers, there are close to 80,000 cameras across the United States. Dozens of cities have so far rejected the use of Flock’s cameras, and some police departments have since blocked federal authorities from using their resources.

A Flock spokesperson did not say, when reached by TechCrunch, if the company keeps track of how how many cameras have been destroyed since being deployed.

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