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Flock's fastest-growing business is 60 mph police drones that can read license plates from the sky (www.techspot.com)

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Privacy groups warn that flying plate readers could expand surveillance far beyond roadside cameras.

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[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Flock drones are equipped with wireless modems (4 of them), because it's significantly more practical for the use case. Maybe that will change if people start jamming them. But then it will be up to municipalities to decide if it's worthwhile to use fiberoptic in their town.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Yep, we'll see how it goes.