re: Its just a License Plate Reader

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Its not that we don't understand that China has interests in competing with US AI capabilities, its that we also understand that the US is heavily invested in AI and the "anti AI data center is just Chinese propaganda" is very clearly propaganda itself to quell the anti AI data center sentiment

whenever the usuals repeat the same thing in every single thread, it immediately tells me that there was some type coordinated social media campaign that put out that particular talking point

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Exactly.

There's also a similar amount of evidence that china has poured millions/billions into influencing anti-ev and anti-renewables sentiment in the US (two industries that china is very openly trying to become the dominant world supplier, with the US being the only real potential competitor). Somehow that never happened and you're crazy if you think china would do such a thing according to those same people.

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transit routes to and from neighborhoods where cars have been broken into and stolen.

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Like four of them on an overpass on I-10 (Pedersen Road) that track every plate and device that leads to more than 10,000 homes with a value at a minimum of 300k, South of I-10 off of Texas Heritage Parkway? It sure as shite hasn't solved any vehicular robberies, or stolen Chevy/GMCs. Crimes get solved because cops pull over the right car at 2AM, as Fulshear PD has repeatedly posted. It's not ALPR that's getting anything done. We have almost no property crime as it is, but that intersection alone has multiple cameras. The latinos building houses all over the area aren't stealing shite.

I get scanned six times on the way to and from the gym I go to in Katy three exits down I-10. For what?

We just had 6 officers suspended due to abuse of the flock cameras.

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We just had 6 officers suspended due to abuse of the flock cameras.

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Were they trying to track their spouses or was it part of a criminal
investigation?

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Productive data.

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Sure.

People are just understandably suspicious what our government believes to be "productive data".

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People are just understandably suspicious what our government believes to be "productive data".

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Of course. That’s understandable.

But this isn’t a government product. It’s a private company attempting to market their product to both government jurisdictions and private business owners. The founders who created it to protect their own communities are still CEO and Chief Technology Officer.

Multiple jurisdictions did not collaborate to create an aggregated requirements document for the purpose of government lording over the masses.

It’s definitely a unique business model that fills a void in law enforcement as well as private security initiatives.

It also appears as though the company specifically intended and followed through on making information about a police department’s Flock deployment publicly accessible to include camera locations, policies, sharing arrangements, and so on. This is mostly the reason the public is able to participate in conversations about the balance of utilization and privacy. They valued privacy and public discussion of the boundaries.

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He doesn't know what bluetooth beacons are, and that Flock is gathering data from your phone, your Airpods, your smart watch, your dog's collar, the air tags and all your Life360 sensors, etc.

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Do you have a link to an article showing that Flock is already tracking with Bluetooth sensors?

I have read that a company, Leonardo, that makes automatic license plate readers is going to start pushing to include the sensors with its plate reading cameras to push SignalTrace and already offers devices including stand alone devices that do this, but I have not read (at least yet) that Flock systems are doing this right now.

https://www.leonardocompany-us.com/lpr/products

https://www.military.com/dont-like-car-license-plate-readers-invading-your-privacy-its-about-to-get-a-lot-worse

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They do store all of the info and tie it together then package and sell your data.
It isn't privacy, it is you being sold. You are the product.

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2 things....1) so what? Your data is sold all the time. 2) If that is indeed what Flock is doing, then it should be fairly easy to fix by legislation.

I always laugh when people are like muh privacy but use smartphones and spill their lives on social media without blinking.

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Obama administration comes to mind.

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Biden Administration more so, not that Sleepy Joe directed any such operations.