Counter A.I. Culture - Share Your Examples - Updated Regularly

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• We Made a Flock (using A.I.) Proof Car:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=znaA091_8-M

We tried to make a car completely undetectable to AI surveillance cameras like Flock and Axon. Using adversarial noise and the help from some friends, we put our car up against an actual Flock camera to see if our tricks would work.

Bill Swearingen designed our Flock-proof wrap! If you’re interested in his anti-surveillance clothing: sandbox.norecognition.org

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• Man Discovers How Many Times Cops Scanned His License Plate:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wtUkCvF3fa4

• haveibeenflocked.com

New website lets drivers check whether their license plate has been searched on Flock database / HaveIBeenFlocked compiles audit logs from 6,586 US agencies and reveals the stated reason for each search!

• Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ

related:

• Adversarial Patches in the Wild
• Investigating Flock: America's Mass Surveillance Company

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• Say THIS to Destroy A.I. Bot Callers:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fhi6JU5pOJk

• 00:00 AI Scam Calls
  
• 01:24 I'm The System
• 03:47 Gertrude
• 08:53 Infinite Oinks
  
• 12:20 Multiple Bots

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• LAWYER: How to FOOL Police A.I. Cameras:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lDROz8iBxqM

Right now, in American cities, police can track you by facial recognition… without a warrant, without your consent, and sometimes in open defiance of local law. In this video, I will show you:

• 1. How cops are using facial recognition software to track you,
• 2. What the Constitution has to say about all of this and – crucially –
• 3. The tools that actually work to beat facial recognition.

In this video, I’m testing everything from reflective hats to IR-blocking glasses

How to Stop Cops From “Seeing Through Walls” to Spy on Your Home

• • How to Stop Cops From "Seeing Through Wall...

Principle Office: Fort Worth, Texas. All B-roll and bodycam footage is for dramatization and educational purposes only

• Flock Is Getting Cancelled. What's Next Is Worse:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hlglh8kPb5U

Your city cancelled Flock, and what's next is worse. Around 100 American towns switched those license plate cameras off, rejected the deal, or tore up the contract, and in a lot of them the cameras were back within months from a different company, under a contract nobody voted on.

The case against Flock got made with receipts. More than 50 law enforcement officers have been accused, charged, or convicted of misusing automatic license plate readers, and a lot of those cases were an officer looking up somebody they used to date. San Francisco's own internal audit, disclosed 1 June, found 299 improper searches of the city's plate data in roughly a year, run for federal and out-of-state agencies, which is more than one per business day.

Then Denver and Longmont dropped Flock and signed with Axon, the company formerly called Taser. Axon makes the Taser, the body camera on the officer's chest, the cloud platform the footage uploads to, the evidence software, and an AI tool that drafts the police report from the body camera's own audio. It entered the plate reader business in 2021 and announced fixed cameras in 2025, including one that mounts inside an existing streetlight and is built to blend in with its surroundings. A Flock camera announces itself, which is the only reason anybody noticed one and told their neighbors. You can't map what you can't see, and you can't organize against what you can't map.

Axon holds an estimated 85% of the body camera market in major U.S. cities and roughly 70% overall, and the ACLU flags what that bundle does: once footage, evidence, report drafting and street cameras all live with one vendor, switching any single piece gets expensive. Axon ships a 30-day retention default with no hard limit, and its system can run plate hits against the NCIC Immigration Violator file. To be fair, the ACLU also credits Axon with offering local storage, which Flock and Motorola don't.

Above both of them sits the rung nobody is cancelling. Motorola Solutions paid $445 million in January 2019 for VaaS International Holdings, owner of Vigilant Solutions and Digital Recognition Network. DRN collects plate data from commercial fleet vehicles, tow trucks and repossession drivers on the roads you drive, at a volume the ACLU cites as a claimed 500 million reads a month. Nobody voted on it, because there was no city contract to vote on. That data gets sold to auto financers and insurers, ICE reaches Motorola's law enforcement database through a Thomson Reuters contract, and the NYPD holds Motorola data for 5 years. Another vendor here, Leonardo, advertises tracking Bluetooth and wireless emissions off phones and car systems, at which point the license plate is beside the point.

The ACLU's conclusion is the cleanest statement of it I've read: switching vendors without contractual restrictions delivers almost no protection. So the questions worth asking at your council meeting are the boring ones. What's the retention period, written as a hard limit in the contract rather than a default in a settings panel? Who outside this city can query the data, and is out-of-state and federal access excluded in writing? Can the system query federal immigration files, and is that switched off contractually? And what happens to every record if the contract ends?

Addie LaMarr is a former U.S. Air Force cryptographer (COMSEC and INFOSEC) turned post-quantum security strategist, with 15 years in cybersecurity. LaMarr Labs advises security teams and executives on cryptographic risk, PQC migration timelines, and enterprise security architecture.

• opb.org/article/2026/08/22/flock-competitors-seek-to-benefit-from-public-backlash
• 404media.co/cities-are-ditching-flock-immediately-replacing-it-with-axon-license-plate-readers
• aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/other-alpr-vendors
• motorolasolutions.com/newsroom/press-releases/motorola-solutions-acquires-vaas-international-holdings-leader-in-data-and-.html
• axon.com/blog/exploring-the-future-of-responsible-facial-recognition
• policingproject.org/statement-of-resigning-axon-ai-ethics-board-members
• eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/axons-draft-one-designed-defy-transparency