👁️ These cameras track you everywhere in the Twin Cities

These Cameras Track You Everywhere in the Twin Cities

We have over 300 automated licence plate reader cameras in the metro area that capture your license plate and location every time you pass them. Most of them are made by a company called Flock Safety, and the data they collect can be used to keep track of everywhere you go. Today's episode of City Cast Twin Cities revisits a conversation with ACLU-MN lawyer Alicia Granse about the legality and ethics of these cameras. [🎧 City Cast Twin Cities]

• Opportunities for misuse: You wouldn't want a detailed record of everywhere you go to fall into the wrong hands. Activists are arguing that's already happening though – with police officers using Flock cameras to track their ex-girlfriends, find a woman who went out of state for an abortion, and share Flock data with ICE.
• Who has access? Anyone with an internet connection and a web browser, according to recent reporting by Benn Jordan and 404 Media. Jordan shows that users can view not only license plate reader data, but also live surveillance camera feeds aimed at pedestrians, calling the vulnerability "Netflix for stalkers." [404 Media]

Monday December 29

• 🚂 Night Trains | Twin Cities Railroad Museum
• 🎶 Gossamer | Pilllar Forum
• 🥣 Matcha Bowl Pinch Pot | Dame Errant Clay
• 🤾 Foam Dodgeball | Palace Community Center
• 🎥 Total Recall | Trylon Cinema
• 🎹 Preener’s Eve with The New Standards | Dakota
• 🎺 Holiday Purgatory | The Parkway Theater

Tuesday December 30

• 🎨 Paint and Sip Ceramics | Venn Brewing Company
• 🚲 Bone Saw Winter Group Ride | Martin Sabo Bridge (Midtown Greenway)
• 🎉 Drag Queen Charity Bingo 🆓 | Roxy’s Cabaret
• 🃏 Neighborhood Cribbage Night 🆓 | Wrecktangle Pizza (LynLake)
• ♥️ Love Actually, pre-movie music w/ Colin Bracewell | The Parkway
• 🎶 Hayley Sales - An Intimate Soiree | Icehouse
• ☕ Triple Espresso: A Highly Caffeinated Comedy | Luminary Arts Center