HaveIBeenFlocked.com compiles Flock audit logs, allowing users to type in their license plate number, and the website returns information on search results, including whether or not a Flock system operator has searched the database for their license plate.
The audit log includes the stated reason that someone in law enforcement gave in order to look up the license plate, but doesn’t include if or when your vehicle passed one of the Flock cameras.
Something I find interesting about this is, there’s no verification that you do indeed own the plate you’re searching. I’m not sure what mischief you could get up to knowing that the police searched for information on someone else, but it’s something to think about.
Honeypot as fuck
I prefer that to there being some requirement that you provide identification to access the audit logs. Actually, what I would really prefer would be for there to be no need for audit logs in the first place, if there were no system to be audited.
It also allows criminals to check if they are already under the eyes of the police. Want to do a drug run? Check if somebody has tracked your vehicle beforehand!
Ooh, that’s a good point. Time to get a new car, they know about this one.
You just steal plates from another car. Bonus points if you can find the same model. Most people don’t check their front and back every time they hop in - just snag their front plate and swap.
That’s a risky move though, if you get caught driving a car with stolen plates, you’re in trouble.
Someone must have nicked my mine and swapped them
The first thing that came to my mind also.
This sounds like another privacy nightmare put on top of the already more than questionable Flock installations.