flock and safety, doesnt go together, its a mass surveillance using AI that haullcinates, profiles dissidents, ex-partners,etc.
“We’ve got to tighten up the policy and make sure everyone is aligned and then turn [the Los Angeles camera system] back on,” [Flock co-founder and CEO Garrett] Langley said.
Sucks to be you, then, doesn’t it.
“The technology is really simple,” he told ABC7. “A car drives by, we take a picture. It’s a static picture of a car, and then we read the license plate. That’s what the technology is – it’s actually not that complicated, it’s pretty simple.”
Sure. Just the license plate. Which is why the ACLU says that you collect “make, model and color of a car, other identifiers like scratches and dents, and anything else they can see.” It can include items “such as trailers, toolboxes, bumper stickers, or bike racks.” That’s why your cameras have audio detection hardware. That’s why your cameras are on biking trails, where no cars will be found.
Then using data analysis like that in Finding Paul Revere reveals a bunch of information about your habits, your friendships, and your associations. But, sure, you have nothing to lose :/
They also track faces and can even report gender and race if their customer thinks that’s useful information.
Oh it’s much worse than that.
https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/
Cops have used Flock’s FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target’s race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.
They have these pointed at children’s gyms. Eat Garrett Langley alive.
When even the LAPD are too embarrassed to be using your shit.
Flock cameras are not LPR cameras. They are regular security cameras, with server-based AI. They even show demos to potential customers showing how the their product can search for specific people based on clothes, animal types, children/babies, strollers, carts, etc. across the entire country from one web-based interface. It’s all very Orwellian and I don’t think this issue either starts nor stops with Flock as a company. This type of surveillance is going to be ubiquitous regardless of what company(s) show up for making money from it.
Yupp the only way out of this is being represented by people who look out for our interests and aren’t afraid to stand up to these companies and pass laws about this.
So in other words, it will get worse forever and never be fixed.
Everyone with a brain cell predicted this when Flock began to become infamous earlier this year.
If your cameras are “AI-Powered” and collecting billions of data points on people, it’s just going to equate to (at least) tens of thousands erroneous identifications due to the limitations of the software.
And that’s unacceptable.
Fret not, friends. The cities going anti-Flock will simply will sign up with that other company that has an ALPR and Trump owns stock in and is partially owned by Blackrock: Axon
lol, “Flock Safety CEO” sounds the same as “Meta’s Chief Privacy Officer”.
Or “Meta Superintelligence safety director”?
(To be clear: screw them for insisting a bot, and not their own stupidity, should “terrify” anybody)
“Flock Safety” is the name of the company
Oooh
until we can get those data, privacy, security and sharing concerns ironed out through a contractual relationship
Trust me bro. These systems will never be abused by those managing the system: surely they couldn’t give themselves access privileges, surely they couldn’t remove data access records, surely individuals in positions of power would never modify, remove or share data out of self-protection, including their buddies’ (assets)…
You’re all just a little confused, you see: these video-capable cameras currently only record snapshots of vehicle identifiers, that happen to be registered to individuals, and might depict its driver and persons surrounding the vehicle. And don’t give me any of that future hocus pocus of “video footage”; that doesn’t exist actually, it cannot simply be enabled with a single over-the-air update…
These cameras, among the many others might, or might not keep a record of everything you do outside your home, and stack it on top of data harvested by other data aggregators; but we promise we won’t look at it. Why aren’t you smiling? It’s by contract: we’ll monitor compliance of both our self and our partner with a mutual interest. And uuuhp, no deliberate loopholes that we actively exploit.
lol they LAPD stopped using then (bs) but they are all still collecting data…
