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This website has instantly more relevance than 50% of the online news outlets out there.

It doesn't. You are right. For comparison: main area of Richmond (Virgina) as a quick random lookup alone lists 441 Flock cams + 6 Alpr cams.

> "The reality is that there are a number of known surveillance vendors and bad actors in this space, but given the opaque nature of telecommunications signalling protocols, those vendors are able to operate without revealing exactly who they really are"

This pretty much summarizes the core problem of the whole mobile security field. You can only secure as far, as the next closed ecosystem is away. Which is not very far. Caused by the ongoing push & pull between the key players.

Can you already describe this as a current trend, court rulings against big tech? Like the jury decisions against instagram / meta last week and so on.

wtf!? I enter my email address for an invitation, receive a link to an est. 2 pages form for answering a shit load of unrelated question, like org name, org country, last summer vacation, first time I got pimples... Is this a request to become the next pope?

issues with reaching google play in germany. No idea if related to the above mentioned experienced outages

Read your blog post backwards. Paragraph by paragraph and you get the answer to your intrinsic question. And btw it would be a much better read at the same time