{"id":155819,"date":"2026-08-09T03:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155819"},"modified":"2026-08-09T03:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:50:21","slug":"privacy-fears-drive-patriotic-americans-to-destroy-licence-plate-camerasunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155819","title":{"rendered":"Privacy fears drive \u2018patriotic Americans\u2019 to destroy licence plate camerasUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostIn only a few years, the surveillance start-up Flock has installed more than 100,000 licence plate reader cameras across the United States.<br \/>\nBut a grass-roots movement upset over privacy concerns is fighting back \u2013 even going so far as systematically vandalising the equipment.<br \/>\nThe first time he decided to trash one of the cameras, a self-styled vigilante wearing all black and known as Nomark, says he was \u201csuper nervous\u201d.<br \/>\nNow, after disabling about 30 of the devices near his home in the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3363424\/privacy-fears-drive-patriotic-americans-destroy-licence-plate-cameras?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostIn only a few years, the surveillance start-up Flock has installed more than 100,000 licence plate reader cameras across the United&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}