Flock Safety is Herd Control

Science and Technology
#1

I thought about posting this on the recent Facial Recognition thread; however, I believe it warrants a dedicated one.

From Wikipedia:
“Flock Safety is an American manufacturer and operator of automated license plate recognition (ALPR), video surveillance, and gunfire locator systems. Founded in 2017, Flock operates such systems under contract with law enforcement agencies, neighborhood associations, and private businesses, and as of 2024, claims to operate in over 4,000 cities across 42 U.S. states.”
NOTE: The Wikipedia page is informative and worth a read, IMO.

Gosh, where to start? I find each product description quite disconcerting when portability, scalability, ease-of-use, interoperability, compatibility, speed, accountability (lack thereof), AI-ility, etc., are considered. This is not just for law enforcement agencies; it seems any organization can purchase their products and services and become a surveillance portal. How long before these are as common as stop signs?

Snapshot of their Products:

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Snapshot of their Solutions:

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#2

Welcome to the surveillance state where “everybody knows you”…wonder what ACLU means by restrictions on monitoring to avoid 1st amendment violations? Monitored surveillance? What does that look like? :joy:

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#3

It won’t be too long before these things are ubiquitous, at least in the cities and richer parts of the world, if Mr. Globaloney gets his way. This kind of tech won’t just be as common as stop signs; it will be on stop signs. I think/hope the situation will vary by country and jurisdiction.

However, regarding all the surveillance tech coming down the pike, I do wonder whether tech-savvy hacker types will find ways to use some of it against Mr. Globaloney and his lackeys. Just think of all the scandals that have been revealed because so many people carry around surveillance devices that can record video.

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#4

Reviving this threat because this

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Right now, there’s a huge amount of pro-Flock camera propaganda that’s coming at us from the government as well as from Flock itself and aligned influencers and commentators. This is because the public is finally catching on to the fact that the government has already been abusing Flock cameras and other automatic license plate readers for years. Cops have been stalking their ex-girlfriends all over the country. They’ve been aiming guns at innocent drivers due to all the mistakes being made. They’ve been arresting innocent people, but more importantly, they’ve been caught setting up this massive surveillance state that’s just now coming to fruition. And it’s frightening. But the government is claiming that Flock keeps us safe, that it solves crimes, that it saves the children, and that it’s completely constitutional. But is it?

The Case Against Flock…Civil Rights Attorney

Shortened: What is Heirs Property?

Well, this feels like a decisive moment in American History. The people vs the representatives of the people.

A Constitutional Fist a Cuffs!

#5

… Then why don’t they call it the “Cheers Flock Safety Camera System” - see what I did there? :slight_smile:
These cameras will ultimately be used as a means to give “non-violent” (know who I mean by “non-violent”?) drivers speeding tickets and NOT as a means to trackdown and arrest “violent DRIVERS” or should I say “violence DRIVERS”. They will be used as a NEW revenue stream (ROI) via fines generated for the cities who put them up. They will also be used as revenue generators for FLOCK in that FLOCK will in addition to being paid for the camera systems they will also be able to sell the data their systems capture. If used for the reasons that are claimed they will lower ROI by causing cities to have to SPEND money in the tracking, apprehension and incarceration of criminals. Therefore, crime prevention is not their real purpose – it is the generation of revenue.

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#6

… and these upcoming elections are the most important in our lifetimes! We are again being told. Uh-huh and …

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#7

… BINGO Fiat! … and why, as you say, in the “richer parts of the world, …”

#8

Can we compromise and go back to allowing police only speed radar guns? They didn’t take a photo and add it to a data base for AI to process.
Radar speed guns could at least be detected with a “fuzz buster” to allow the drivers to slow down and not get a speeding ticket. Unless a cop and his vehicle was there to witness a “California stop” at a yield or stop sign, all was “legal”.

#9

I’m watching Texas and Florida. Conservative safe havens from taxes and the man…so we’re told.

We will learn if the current conservative platform is more constitutional conservative or Sharia conservative. You do know that Sharia Law is as conservative as you get. They just vote for the liberals to get in and get what they want, and then once their in, they attempt to flip it. It’s called using our system for their benefit.

Anyhoo, looks like Abbott and DeSantis are doing an about face on Flock because of public pressures and I guess elections?

The paradox of Florida is that, according to that Civil Rights Lawyer (and he seems to be on our side on most issues) Florida has an abysmal record at protecting their conservative civil rights. He moved out to West Virginia because of the egregious track record of the police and constitutional violations by the po po.

And Abbott is a bait and switch guy.

You don’t need to monitor New York. We’re already under tyrannical control. No suprise.

I watch those who run on a conservative platform but run liberal like policies. You can fool most of the population most of the time.

#10

… Flock tracks people … we are shocked and surprised … and it appears that there is additional data within these cameras beyond what the hackers were able to extract. Hmmm, wonder what that data set might be.

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#11

In the article we see mention of insufficient storage capacity…

Check this video out:

TLDW (Too long didn’t watch) massive Data relay center network (cell towers on steroids) will
be in place all over the U.S. next year (2027). That should help with the storage issue. To hell with the health consequences… (12min mark through 20 min)

No matter how angry you are…you’re not angry enough.

#12

What exactly is dangerous about using technology to produce a controlled environment to ward off chaos and preventing access to the levers of power and control by psychological damaged mad people?
I have to wonder who paid and how much to this “content creator” to disparage the other content providers like Catherine Austin Fitts and Whitney Webb. Are we witnessing a content providers war or simply a propaganda war?

#13

I wonder if these work

https://www.zennioptical.com/id-guard

#14

If they do block infrared light it’s a case of the cure being worse than the mental illness of a captured image.

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#15

… Everyone works for someone and in many cases they do not all work for the same people. In answer to your question … aren’t they the same thing?

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#16

Funny, after the article says the cameras don’t detect license plates because that is done at the cloud server, they then say “Flock insists its cameras do not perform face recognition” with no comment about how it might be done by the server as well.

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#17

… We should simply assume that these “cameras” are evil regardless of the known or unknown abilities. … aaannndddd I’m still very interested in the highly encrypted data set the hackers could not access.

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#18

I’d love to see a graph of some sort that demonstrates the totally disproportionate amount of tyranny the “Boston Tea Party” colonists put up with before taking action verses the current everywhere-all-at-once onslaught were enjoying today…

So far no tea, OR blood.

At some point it would seem that we’re responsible for enjoying the circus without participating?

#19

… you mean “participating” as in burning the entire Circus Tent to the ground? I’m in!

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#20

Yeah, from the Circus Tents all the way to the manufacturers…

Don’t stop the fire till it reaches the whites of their eyes… Ben Franklin maybe :slight_smile: or Sun Tzu… One of those old dead dudes…