BELLE PLAINE, Iowa — Iowa Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn just put it bluntly on Twitter. If he becomes Iowa’s next governor, Flock cameras are gone.
When asked directly whether he would abolish the network of automated license plate readers that have quietly blanketed roads across the state, the sixth-generation Iowan answered with a single, unambiguous “Yes.”
See the Original Tweet Here: https://t.co/N3tPPV0R38
See Lahn’s Response Here: https://t.co/WKzePClMcS
The stance cuts against the quiet expansions that have already put these devices in dozens of Iowa communities, logging every plate that rolls past and feeding the data into a system that can be searched by agencies far beyond local police.
Lahn’s position treats the technology for what it is, which is a permanently active tracking grid that records where ordinary people drive, when they leave home, and who they visit, without the need for a warrant or meaningful public debate.
These cameras have drawn fire for good reason. They turn public roads into permanent surveillance zones, and the data they collect does not stay neatly local.
Critics point out that the same systems have been used in ways that raise serious privacy and civil-liberty concerns, yet the push to install more of them continues in many places.
Notably, Flock cameras are not present in many Jewish areas of New York, a fact that stands in contrast to their rapid spread elsewhere.
Lahn’s promise to ban them in Iowa offers a big change, which is to protect the ability of regular people to move around without being tracked by a private company and its government partners.
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This is actually fucking insane. This Golden Age of Jewish power is creating a generation of overly-cocky Jews who do things like this right in front of our faces. Anyone who denies the JQ at this point shouldn’t even have a platform.