We mapped the street-level surveillance of so-called atlanta. Our goal is to make offensive and defensive approaches to surveillance technology more possible and for this work to be replicable.
We prioritized collecting data on ALPRs (Automatic License Plate Readers) and the city’s ‘Shield Program’ cameras. We recorded 872 Flock, 450 Motorola, and 2,316 city-owned cameras across all of fulton county and some parts of dekalb (ideally we would like all of metro atl– gwinnett, cobb, clayton, in addition to the rest of dekalb county– mapped out).
The files are organized by camera type and can be found here:
https://cryptpad.fr/drive/#/2/drive/view/WHudg0XaLup8pPLQKcU1fVnxBV8tnLQ0MWw4xm6+m6o/
The .kml files can be imported in Organic Maps, OSM (Open Street Maps), or GIS software. In Organic Maps, they will show up as layers that can be shown/hidden as lists under the bookmarks tab (star icon). The .csv files are spreadsheets of the raw data. Feel free to publish this data on other platforms.
Each camera is identified according to type and labeled with its orientation. We used the term “dingleberry” to specify the PTZ (Point-Tilt-Zoom) cameras affixed to hanging pipe (most often seen at intersections). “Shotgun” refers to directional cameras also often seen at intersections. The “Red Light” camera list contains cameras suspected to be red light cameras, but we actually have no clue what they are (small gray rectangular cameras). While we carefully reviewed all collected data, there may be some redundancies and inaccuracies, so don’t solely rely on this data to plan actions. Do your own scouting first.
We also wrote a guide (below) on how we went about collecting and organizing this data, with the hope that it might be useful to anyone interested in doing this work in their own area.
We desire the complete destruction of the entire panopticon and all of the colonial infrastructure it seeks to safeguard. May this information aid in that project.
against borders and hope,
some nihilist secretaries
via anonymous submission