{
  "id": 342605,
  "title": "Privacy fears drive ‘patriotic Americans’ to destroy licence plate cameras",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/privacy-fears-drive-patriotic-americans-to-destroy-licence-plate",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-09T03:50:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3363424/privacy-fears-drive-patriotic-americans-destroy-licence-plate-cameras"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In only a few years, the surveillance start-up Flock has installed more than 100,000 licence plate reader cameras across the United States. But a grass-roots movement upset over privacy concerns is fighting back – even going so far as systematically vandalising the equipment. The first time he decided to trash one of the cameras, a self-styled vigilante wearing all black and known as Nomark, says…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}