LINOVISION Automated License Plate Recognition Camera with Vehicle Attributes Analysis Demo Footage

Our Take

This one isn't a journalist or an activist — it's the manufacturer, LINOVISION, showing off its own product. That's exactly why it's worth watching. The pitch is aimed at anyone with a credit card: a single camera that reads plates in the dark, tags the make, model, and color of every car that passes, and plugs straight into an access-control gate via Wiegand protocol. No mention of who's allowed to buy it, how long the data sits on a server, or who else might get access to that feed.

That's the uncomfortable truth about the ALPR boom. Flock Safety gets most of the headlines, but the underlying technology — OCR plus deep learning, marketed on "98% accuracy" and dedicated firmware for different regions of the world — is now a commodity. Any HOA, business owner, or local government with a few thousand dollars can bolt a Flock-style dragnet onto a pole and start logging every vehicle attribute that passes, with zero public process and no requirement to disclose it. Vendors treat this like selling a security camera; in practice they're selling a piece of infrastructure for tracking people's movements.

We built the map because these cameras keep multiplying faster than the public conversation about them. If you've spotted a plate reader in your area — Flock-branded or otherwise — help us document it, and check take action for ways to push back before this hardware becomes background noise nobody questions.