GrumpyDuckling

There's a big difference between a passive surveillance camera and a network of devices that logs every time you go past one of the 83k+ spots or a car equipped with them. It's warrantless tracking and a constitutional violation. They've already been declared illegal in several criminal cases, but it hasn't reached a higher court yet. There is a lawsuit over these but I haven't heard anything about it in awhile.

Edit: It survived a motion to dismiss and is moving forward in federal court.

www.yahoo.com/news/flock-camera-case-could-local-190000699.html

Illinois just banned this practice in certain areas where the only source of water is underground. ADM in Decatur Illinois has a project which leaked under the lake and ADM lied about it for months. The funniest part is that local politicians were shocked ADM would lie like they didn't make a whole movie about it starring Matt fucking Damon.

Illinois does stuff like this all the time. They ended cash bail a couple of years ago, and legal weed

The blue cable is actually a USB cable but being used for pcie

I did it once with a mid atx that had only two slots but needed a card to boot and I wanted to put a networking card in the full sized slot so used one of these for the graphics card.

Those pcie x1 to x16 adapters also use one.

These are also on solar/battery and use cell data.

As far as I'm aware these are basically just trail cameras, they snap a photo on motion and send it over mobile data to be processed server side for ocr. They claim they can also identify make and model and anything different like bumper stickers. I wouldn't be surprised if their object recognition is just people in India. I also suspect that their OCR is, or at least was provided through 3rd party api calls.

You could train crows to peck at them.

They use a basic ir sensor to trigger the camera, they're just a cheap trail camera that sends images when motion is detected. You could put a black sticker over the ir sensor and then they would be wondering why it's not taking photos.

I read that glow in the dark material will trigger an ir motion sensor. So don't plant small flags coated with glow in the dark paint across from the cameras because it will cause them to take and send thousands of useless images and make them think their camera is broken.

It doesn't do it in card view either, just when I click on a thumbnail in list mode.