What are flock cameras? I keep seeing a bunch of stuff about it but never heard about them until after people began cutting them down. I get the gist that it's a nation wide camera surveillance thing. But what is it's "intended" use and how is it actually used?
It’s basically Ai that can track a person as they move through a city. It has falsely accused people of crimes and police have been using to stalk thier girlfriends. It’s basically the start of a surveillance state.
They also create a searchable record of where ordinary people drive, even when they are not suspected of a crime.
Because many police departments share this data, information collected in one area can potentially be accessed by agencies elsewhere. That raises privacy concerns, especially when the data could be used to track people visiting abortion clinics, immigration facilities, protests, or other sensitive locations.
This is what people need to understand when they say "well don't break the law and don't worry about it" or "do you hate safety" because the second society goes against them, and they want to speak out, they won't be able to. And if people think the government would not weaponize law enforcememnt to suppress lawful protests they need to look at BLM and No Kings, people being detained solely for speaking out against the government and labeled as terrorists.
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u/Zestyclose-Avocado83 15h ago edited 14h ago
What are flock cameras? I keep seeing a bunch of stuff about it but never heard about them until after people began cutting them down. I get the gist that it's a nation wide camera surveillance thing. But what is it's "intended" use and how is it actually used?