re: Flock camera map

A family member in Alabama had to file a police report on an old boyfriend harassing her. He kept coming to her house even after having to be arrested. While waiting for trial, the police let him know they were tracking him every where he went as a warning to stay away from her. They lost him after a while. He had changed license plates and the family member was able to read the unregistered tag he replaced it with from her doorbell camera. She gave it to the police and it took them 3 minutes to find he was in Texas. He probably doesn’t plan to show up for trial but they know where to find him.

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Nothing is illegal about taking photos in public...

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Oh sweetheart, that is what they tell you they are doing while actually doing much much worse.

The 100% have the capability to feed into facial recognition but so far have led with "we only track cars" to get the entire system rolled out with support of naive citizens such as in this thread.

Flock them.

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The 100% have the capability to feed into facial recognition but so far have led with "we only track cars" to get the entire system rolled out with support of naive citizens such as in this thread.

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Yeah, I read an article about Flock selling their AI tools to a prison somewhere. Would have to dig it up, but if they can’t track people via facial recognition (among other methods) then I don’t see much point in using their service in a prison, where nobody is driving around.

I think the bigger concern about Flock is who they decide to sell access to, though. Right now they say it’s only government agencies/municipalities, businesses (e.g. for security purposes), and HOA’s. But tomorrow it could be insurance companies, advertisers, private investigators, employers, who knows?

They’re a private company building out infrastructure to track millions of Americans and analyze their movements. As far as I’m aware, there’s little/no legislation preventing them from selling access to whomever they please.

And it seems the government - or at least a good chunk of it - has little incentive to intervene because our law enforcement agencies have shifted toward using private companies as a workaround to bypass due process. Why get a warrant or subpoena for someone’s location data or browsing history when you just.. buy the information from Flock/data brokers without involving the courts at all?

It bothers me a bit that our society has just given up on the right to privacy. I feel like if you could go back in time to the early days of the internet and show people how all of this data is being used today, they’d see red flags everywhere. But now it’s been normalized to the point that the majority of the population simply doesn’t seem to give a shite.

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It bothers me a bit that our society has just given up on the right to privacy. I feel like if you could go back in time to the early days of the internet and show people how all of this data is being used today, they’d see red flags everywhere. But now it’s been normalized to the point that the majority of the population simply doesn’t seem to give a shite.

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You couldn't convince anyone after GenX to give up the web or their phone. They couldn't function without it.