加拿大YouTuber兼软件工程师安东尼·西斯蒂利自行开发了一套自动车牌识别（ALPR）摄像头系统，用于追踪警察车辆的行踪1。皮尔地区警察局的两名警官于9月20日造访了他的家，对该设备表达了隐私方面的顾虑1。西斯蒂利在2024年10月7日发布视频，披露了这次警方访问的经过1。
警方此举暴露了执法部门对监控工具态度的矛盾之处。警官在访问中表示："这对他们来说会很可怕，因为人们会能够找出他们住在哪里，他们什么时候上班，以及整天在做什么"1。事实上，Flock Safety公司提供的类似ALPR系统已在美国49个州部署超过120,000台摄像头，每月捕获数十亿次车牌扫描1。安全研究人员发现Flock网络包含335,701台摄像头，并创建了"Flock监控地图"1。这些大规模监控系统的风险已有先例：黑客曾从被盗的Flock摄像头中提取超过27,000个视频片段和160万张图像，仅用时21天1。由于隐私问题，洛杉矶和富勒顿等多个城市已暂停或取消了与Flock的合同1。
A Canadian YouTuber and software engineer named Anthony Sistilli constructed an automated license plate recognition (ALPR) camera designed to track police vehicles, mirroring the surveillance techniques that law enforcement agencies deploy on the public 1. On September 20, two officers from the Peel Regional Police visited his home to express privacy concerns about the device 1. Sistilli published a video about the visit on October 7, 2024 1.
The incident highlights a tension within law enforcement regarding mass surveillance. An officer explained the concern: "This would be scary for them, because people would be able to find out where they live, when they come to work, and what they're doing all day" 1. The device was modeled after Flock Safety, a company that has deployed over 120,000 cameras across 49 U.S. states, capturing billions of license plate scans monthly 1. Security researchers have documented 335,701 cameras within the Flock network and created a "Flock surveillance map" to visualize their coverage 1. The risks of such systems have become evident: hackers extracted over 27,000 video clips and 1.6 million images from compromised Flock cameras within a 21-day period 1. These privacy concerns have prompted multiple cities, including Los Angeles and Fullerton, to suspend or terminate their contracts with Flock 1.
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