re: What is your take on the use of Flock Cameras?

Good citizens should start setting up cameras across the street from every police station and courthouse. Set them up across the street from a judge or police chief's house.

If they aren't doing anything wrong, what's the problem?

Doesn’t matter if they get caught if the government never prosecutes them.

Not only that they are collecting more info. than just the license plate and car information. They're getting cell phone data of the driver and all passengers as well as pulling credit info.

I saw something on X the other day where they put a flock camera across the street from a gun range in an area with low density. Apparently, they're tracking who goes to the gun range now.

As reported yesterday, LEO used data from Flock to preemptively recognized how often a vehicle crossed a state line into a state and returned back to the state. Using that data they 'say' that pattern of travel gave them probable cause for a warrant to search for marijuana. The neighboring state sells it. The home state bans it.

THAT is a huge stretch. It makes a presumption of guilt merely because of how someone travels. There are maybe thousands of reasons why someone might do that besides going to buy the devil's weed. Cancer treatments. An ailing family member needs care and assistance. Maybe fishing is better there and you like to fish as a hobby. Or golf. Or shopping.

I hope the guy gets it thrown out of court. Even SFP could easily ask, "could it have been ANY reason other than buying pot? Any?" As soon as the answer comes out as, "Yes, but..." even SFP would ask for and get thrown out any evidence collected from a bad faith warrant.

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But who tells us when they stop something "else?"

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Yep that's the problem. There should be guard rails on that.

Extreme invasion of privacy and very much communistic. Watching over people in this manner decreases trust is the reason America must maintain the 2nd Amendment at all cost.

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The 4th amendment is just as important as the 1st and 2n

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If law enforcement has access to data that doesn't require a warrant, then that data should be available to the public.

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Invasion of privacy and mass surveillance by government. No other way to view it.

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I know a lot of people have this stance but you carry a mass surveillance device on you AT ALL TIMES

I had a crime committed outside of my place of business, I reported it and the LEO came and literally pulled up the flock information right in front of me in an instant.

Could certainly be abused by anyone with access.

Don’t get me wrong, it seemed like a dream for catching bad guys. Is that worth sacrificing privacy and mass data harvesting by the gov?

I mean the NSA is harvesting this very conversation and surveilling all of us every day. Just because doing this allows for stopping some terrorist, does that mean it is a net positive for the United States citizens? I am not so sure.

Yes but does local law enforcement have access to that data without a warrant?