Link Resource Database

Links to reliable sources (news articles, research, and analysis) for informed opposition to dragnet mass surveillance.

This database focuses on facts and reporting rather than opinion or philosophy. The more reliable, the better. We're looking for things that can be presented to elected officials and other decision-makers as independent, reliable sources that they should take seriously.

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• 🔗 Public pushback to Flock cameras spark variety of government responses
  The Center Square · 2026-07-10
  WI Evanston Madison Springfield Pushback Renewal

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  • 🔗 Public pushback to Flock cameras spark variety of government responses
    Vandalia Radio
  • 🔗 Public pushback to Flock cameras spark variety of government responses
    Advantage News
• 🔗 Inside Chicago's surveillance panopticon
  MIT Technology Review · 2026-02-23
  Paywall

  "The data revealed that in the first 10 months of operation, the eight Flock license plate readers the town had deployed scanned 3,000,000 plates. But only 42 scans led to an alert—an infinitesimal yield of 0.000014%. At the same time, the impact was disproportionate. While Oak Park's population of about 53,000 is only 19% Black, Black drivers made up 85% of those flagged by the Flock cameras, seemingly amplifying what were already concerning racial disparities in the village's traffic stops."

• 🔗 New reports emerge on Border Patrol use of Flock cameras
  Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest · 2025-12-02
  Immigration Oversharing
• 🔗 Why I voted to cancel Oak Park's contract with Flock (and so should you)
  Derek Eder · 2025-08-22
  
• 🔗 Oak Park terminates Flock license plate reader contract
  Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest · 2025-08-07
  Success Terminated