Yall are frickin heroes

Deflock.me is absolutely depressing to see the amount of surveillance present.

Would be great to have a navigation app that could map routes that avoid or minimize the number of surveillance points.

Currently I just try to be diligent about marking any police or ice activity in waze but a FOSS option would be great.

You might be surprised at how many Flock cameras there are in your community. Many large and small municipalities around the country have signed deals with Flock for license plate readers to track the movement of all cars in their city. Even though these deals are signed by local police departments, oftentimes ICE also gains access.

This is so dystopian, even before ICE comes into play.

Because of their ubiquity, people are interested in finding out where and how many Flock cameras are in their community. One project that can help with this is the OUI-SPY, a small piece of open source hardware. The OUI-SPY runs on a cheap Arduino compatible chip called an ESP-32. There are multiple programs available for loading on the chip, such as “Flock You,” which allows people to detect Flock cameras and “Sky-Spy” to detect overhead drones. There’s also “BLE Detect,” which detects various Bluetooth signals including ones from Axon, Meta’s Ray-Bans that secretly record you, and more. (…)

There are several more examples of apps, sites, inventions and FOSS community efforts to deal with surveillance, just read the article. As bad as the circumstances leading to it are, it’s good that such projects get more public attention.

TL;DR From the article:

But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

Further on the article goes in dept in what ways the ICE is monitoring communities and possible ways to counteract it.

You can see Benn Jordan’s videos (referenced in the article) here: https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/5xhkuDuVsWZ2jbsVw32Una