• Optional@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Forbes has learned the shipping and business services company is using AI tools made by Flock Safety, a $4 billion car surveillance startup, to monitor its distribution and cargo facilities across the United States.

    A four Billion dollar start-up? Great googly moogly.

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      4 months ago

      Flock Safety, here’s their self description from their website.

      Eliminate Crime in Your Community To solve and eliminate crime – you need evidence. Protect your community, business or school 24/7 with coverage that never sleeps. Empower your law enforcement agency to solve crime faster with Flock’s city-wide safety platform.

      Flock’s city-wide Surveillance platform sounds more like it.

      No wonder it has such a valuation, the government has a raging hardon at the prospect of constant surveillance and monitoring, nationwide.

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      You’re damn right they are worth billions. They synergized cognitive computing via blockchain with AI through sentiment analysis and deep learning. Just wait until they add a touch of intelligent automation, machine learning, predictive analytics, and natural language processing. Chefs kiss this unicorn is gonna be worth trillions.

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    I found an article from when FedEx got their own police force. Its a gem. The first line reads “FedEx Corporation is waging war on crime and terrorist threats with its own army of 10 plain-clothes detective-style cops.”

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    Private police forces seem like an egregious overreach in some sense, but I know every university campus has them too. I guess there should just be judicial oversight on such bodies