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“The Emperor is a fan of Flock.” Why did Anthony Ralphs need to dress up like Darth Vader to protest Flock cameras in San Diego? After months of making his case to the city council, it took a Darth Vader costume to get people to pay attention. @404media.co www.404media.co/darth-vader-...

404media.coThe Man Behind the Anti-Flock Darth Vader Mask Wants to Know: 'When Will This End?'Anthony Ralphs has been speaking against Flock at San Diego City Council meetings for almost a year straight. When he showed up as Darth Vader, the world started watching.
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Across the US, people like Anthony are pushing back against Flock and other surveillance tech that police and elected officials are eager to install on every corner.

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From open-source ALPR trackers and campaigns to cancel Flock contracts to political theater like Anthony’s Darth speech, people are finding ways to fight back against this tech-enabled mass surveillance. www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...

npr.orgWhy some cities are ditching their Flock license plate readersCities around the country are debating whether to keep their automatic license plate readers. Concerns about privacy and federal immigration agents accessing local data are driving these debates.
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Sarah Hamid from @eff.org calls Flock and other automated license plate readers (ALPRs) ‘carceral tech’ -  tools used to facilitate the capture and coercion of entire groups of people. She connects the spread of Flock with America’s long history of using military tech to exert and consolidate power.

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@alixdunn.com sat down with Sarah and Anthony to unpack how resistance to Flock and other surveillance tech shows that we all have a techno politic - and that what we do next can change the way power moves. Listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/floc...

themaybe.orgFlock Shock: How Local Fights Over Surveillance Are Reshaping American Politics w/ Sarah Hamid & Anthony RalphsUnpacking the backlash against Flock that's united people across the political spectrum to challenge surveillance tech & demand more say in how it’s used.