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No user record in our sample, but hibf has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
No user record in our sample, but hibf has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
Technically true. Flock could present an unfounded argument that I might be brute-forcing my own security and privacy measures. I think it'd sound pretty dumb.
They don't actually allege anything. They add in the keywords without going so far as to say "this website is doing X." It's enough to trip the keyword filters at Cloudflare and other hosting providers and reverse the…
Can't be less than what support has had to say up until now.
Whenever anyone does a search in Flock's database, Flock sends the metadata to the related customers. I.e., if someone does a statewide lookup in Nebraska, all Nebraska-based Flock customers receive the search metadata.…
That seems contradictory. You don't care about a parking garage operator, but at the same time distrust "some random third party company"?
I'll assume you're correctly citing the statute — someone entering a sequence of characters in a "Search" field doesn't mean that the search term was "gathered by" or "created from the analysis of" ALPR data.
This automated already, and you don't need a face. Flock does it. https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/reid
You assume those aren't logged and accessible by the government. They are.
You're right that the dataset is incomplete, but it contains searches done by police, not plates read by Flock. The search logs are public record even when alpr data is not; quite a few come from IL.