From the article…

“The surveillance is not passive. It is designed to capture everything.

But there are countermeasures.

The Scarecrow is an open-source project that generates optimized grayscale frame patterns for license plates. The patterns are designed to suppress ALPR camera detection while remaining readable to the human eye. The project is available on GitHub. It degrades the system’s ability to automatically read your plate. No frame defeats every camera. (https://github.com/Meltedd/scarecrow)

One man living in a big city uses the Scarecrow frame on his vehicle. He passes six Flock cameras on his daily commute. He has not received a single automated alert or citation linked to the frame.

DeFlock (deflock.org) is an app that maps Flock camera locations nationwide. Created by Will Freeman in Boulder, Colorado, the app shows where cameras are positioned and which direction they face. It can also plot routes that avoid cameras entirely. The number of cameras mapped has reached nearly 90,000.

The app exists because no government agency is doing this oversight.

SignalTrace countermeasures are harder. Your car’s tire pressure sensor broadcasts a fixed, unencrypted ID constantly. Disabling Bluetooth on your phone does almost nothing. The sensors passively capture signals your devices emit whether you want them to or not. The only reliable method is putting your devices in a Faraday bag before entering a vehicle.

Legislative action is the only permanent fix. The Institute for Justice offers draft legislation that would cement Fourth Amendment constraints into laws specifically governing ALPR systems. The California ALPR Privacy Act (SB 34) was supposed to do this. Flock’s architecture bypassed it anyway.”

If you are worried about flock cams feeding footage to the feeds just imagine what your phone does (has 2 or more cams, a mic, and many other more advanced sensors).

Sharing data with the feds is their entire point