Flock ALPR Cameras

Oh, the irony of it all!
The spirit of Barney Fife is alive and well in Taylor Co.
Ya gotta nip it Andy! Nip it in the bud! :p

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Bongo Lewi said:
I get paid to spy on people.
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Did you sell the information to anyone and everyone that had money to pay you or did you keep it between the you and your client?

Did you watch everyone and report everything you recorded to anyone who had money to pay up or did you keep it to the target you were paid to spy on?
 
Racer88 said:
So, it looks like your job will go the way of the Do-do, since it can be automated with "AI." 😊😉
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It's definitely going to change. And it has changed a lot over the past 20 years.

The only saving grace is that inspire of all the great search tools anyone can use today, people still don't really know how to catch a rat. Or find someone. It's difficult to be an investigator when you are emotionally attached. You can do a lot of research on your own, but you have to know how to follow the breadcrumbs. And it is essential you be detached from the emotion. Anger, stress, fear. It makes most people irrational. Seriously... I have had clients who are so wound up and frustrated they tell me they want their stalker or former something or other who is agitating them dead. Obviously we don't kill people. If that comes up again, we keep the deposit and walk away.

Clients needing personal protection are usually uncomfortable arming themselves or their family. They are afraid or concerned about their safety or that of their family. They want someone else's eyes scanning the crowd, protecting their home, etc. while they try to live a normal life.
 
And now they are instantly transformed into video cameras...

If a software update can make them video cameras, does this mean another update can make them facial recognition cameras? After all, it's all in the software, right?

Like the ad copy says, "Connecting the dots you didn't know were there."

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What was that they keep telling us that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about? 🙄

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I think there are lots of good ol boys who want to keep
their comin and goin private and take great exception
to this.
 
Racer88 said:
www.thedrive.com

Flock Says Its Cameras Worked 'Correctly' When Police Tracked and Ambushed Me for No Reason

Flock says its AI-powered surveillance cameras need humans in the loop to input target license plates correctly and verify its alerts.
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The story mentions 20 BILLION plate reads a month with a probable 1% error rate. As the author points out, that is 200 MILLION possible "hits" sent to LEOs. :eek: So the potential for getting stopped for an erroneous plate flag IS real. Now we are getting into 4th Amendment violations if you get pulled over. What if someone pulled over had just got done smoking a joint or drinking a beer? (for example) Because of "smells" that wouldn't normally be observed (if the driver hadn't been pulled over), the officer now has "probable cause" to search the vehicle. 😠

I'm normally a devout capitalist and if the market is there (that you helped create) then by all means make some money! And it only helps that exuberant police depts are singing the praises so there is "word of mouth" advertising helping sales, as well. But I'm going to group the Flock in with "Smart Guns" and other BS technologies claiming to make us "safer". :rolleyes:
 
Laws can't move as fast as technology. Flock is offering a service at a low low price. The information they are gathering can ,and is, sold to anyone who wants to pay. That is where the big bucks are. It has nothing to do with safety. Insurance companies for example are salivating over this kind of data.

Law enforcement uses this gray area to access information they are not able to without a warrant.

A simple legislative fix would be to restrict any and all data to those with a warrant. Period dot end of discussion. It is government sanctioned data collection. Public easements are required to place cameras. Data should be restricted to the licence plate only, no other data allowed. It is one thing to go on Facebook and reveal your entire personal life. It is entirely different to have a profile built on you without your knowledge or consent.

Cameras on private property are a different issue. Lowe's seems to be all in on Flock. I can send them a nice email that I won't shop at their stores because of the intrusion and it up to them to decide if it's worth it.
 
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