The city I work in installed Flock cameras. City Council was clear they were only to be used to flag license plates for active felony warrants, silver alerts, and Amber alerts.
In less than 48 hours they were using them to give out tickets and track people who had turned in Open Records requests regarding the police department.
Guess it’s our job to go around destroying them then
I’ve heard of Amber alerts for lost kids but are silver alerts for lost older folk?
Yup. In California we even segregate the alerts based on race for some fucking reason. Black people don’t get the same normal alert that every other ethnicity gets, they get an EbOnY aLeRt.
what i duckducked and its true lmao
Yea, but they are usually more about someone with dementia finding the car keys and driving off than kidnappings.
That happened to my grandfather more than once. He was in the neighborhood but would lose his bearings, not realizing that we was three blocks from home. A bit nuts.
Yep
They are a tool for terrorism. ACAB
Neat map that compiles how many weekly contributions are made around the US to the deflock map
These also have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. I’m convinced that they also connect mac addresses of your devices to determine who is driving. I also suspect that they use facial recognition when possible.
The facial recognition would be done by whoever they send footage to.
Wouldn’t be shocked about the hardware addresses though.
The cameras themselves are simply trail cameras with GPS and a cell signal. The images get sent to a server for processing. I’m also sure that they send at least some images to be read by humans manually.
so much for the fourth amendment
Damn there are a couple in my tiny rural town, they appear to be high up though.
Anyone have tips or ideas about how to disable or destroy them?
I feel that this should be the biggest issue in US national news. And although I do not consume much main stream news I have only ever seen blogs and small circulation articles on the issue. Like how can any one on either aide of the political divide be ok with shit?
There is good traction on the federal lawsuit in Norfolk. Your absolutely right this is a bipartisan issue. It will set huge precident if IJ wins the case. At the very least, LEO needs warrants to use the system. Right now it’s the wild west.
IJ posts updates of the case here. They have already tried to derail the lawsuit multiple times but they have been able to push through all the appeals thus far so it can actual go to a jury trial.
Because Trump supporters will say, “I don’t do anything wrong so it doesn’t matter, it’ll only catch libruls”
And Trump administration people will say, “Well they won’t use it on me ever and we can use it to inflict maximum suffering on our enemies”
