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Miguel Afonso Caetano"Flock Safety loves to crow about the thousands of local law enforcement agencies around the United States that have adopted its avian-themed automated license plate readers (ALPRs). But when a privacy activist launched a website to map out the exact locations of these pole-mounted devices, the company tried to clip his wings. The company sent DeFlock.me and its creator Will Freeman a cease-and-desist letter, claiming that the project dilutes its trademark. Suffice it to say, and to lean into ornithological wordplay, the letter is birdcage liner. Representing Freeman, EFF sent Flock Safety a letter rejecting the demand, pointing out that the grassroots project is well within its First Amendment rights." <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/anti-surveillance-mapmaker-refuses-flock-safetys-cease-and-desist-demand" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/anti-surveillance-mapmaker-refuses-flock-safetys-cease-and-desist-demand</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FlockSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FlockSafety</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ALPRs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ALPRs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Surveillance</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IP</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trademarks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trademarks</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceState</a>

Doug Grinbergs<a href="https://mastodon.social/@eff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@eff</a> "<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EFF</a>’s Atlas of Surveillance project has identified more than 1,700 agencies using <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ALPRs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ALPRs</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DeFlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeFlock</a> has mapped out more than 16,000 individual camera locations, more than a third of which are Flock Safety devices." <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/anti-surveillance-mapmaker-refuses-flock-safetys-cease-and-desist-demand" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/anti-surveillance-mapmaker-refuses-flock-safetys-cease-and-desist-demand</a> Flock Safety Wikipedia article <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FlockSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FlockSafety</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AtlasOfSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AtlasOfSurveillance</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSM</a>

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