🗺 Map of cameras monitoring your car | DeFlock During a trip from Washington to Alabama, Will Freeman began noticing all the cameras he was driving around in, and upon investigation discovered they were automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), primarily used by police. In Huntsville, Freeman noticed these cameras forming a ring around the city center, leading him to start DeFlock on Open Street Map to map license plate surveillance camera locations around the world to determine their location and address. To date, DeFlock has identified more than 1,700 cameras in the United States and more than 5,600 worldwide. The project also aims to offer navigation routes that allow drivers to avoid these cameras, although it also indicates that in some places this is impossible. Which makes DeFlocks a fundamental tool to highlight this and try to find options. Open source project DeFlock is mapping the locations of license plate surveillance cameras around the world. The tool is DeFlock:

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Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.

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