But who pays for and authorises the cameras? Is this any different than me asking the contractor who installed the ULEZ cameras on my commute(*) to take them down, when I should have complained to the council
(*) Made up scenario
Could someone please explain an European what is up with Flock? Who installed them, where and why? And at whom’s behest?
So flock sells (or leases?) hardware (the cameras) and provides subscriptions to their database for biometric or other ai recognition stuffs. It’s not just automatic plate readers- it’ll also identify your car by make, model, rust spots, number stickers, etc. (or try to, anyways,)
The people installing them are the property owners- Home Depot (a big box hardware store,) installs them in their lots, for example. Local police agencies (and the city/town governments that govern them) install them on traffic signals, as another example. There are thousands of police agencies ranging from the city/town/small town through county, state, and federal levels across America, and frequently agencies dedicated to a particular beat, like a specific transit system, or a city’s parks, or a college campus.
It’s difficult to imagine that once cameras are up Flock can keep them there without the permission of whomever owns the property they’re installed on.
So either the college doesn’t own it (on a traffic signal, would be the city, probably,) or the college is full of shit- “whelp we tried! Sorry!”
Yes. I have extensive experience on seeing these systems implemented and I can back this post up. The camera’s analytical capabilities can be summed up as “whatever the camera captures, it looks for patterns in other camera’s footage and stores everything it sees.”
The cameras are deliberate in what they do. The system is specifically designed to track individuals, but also groups and this allows them to basically track everyone.
Is all the US government needs to do is put the faces from IDs to this tracking system and it becomes an instant hunting database. They can find any person across the United States of America in near real-time.
Its considered “crude” to them at this time because in rural areas, it’s only grabbing license plates coming and going but it’s expanding rapidly and every single local government has been on board with. Why? Revenue.
I’m not going to get into this too much but we tried offering non tracking systems that were intended for public safety. The local governments did not want them at all even though the camera system did a better job at its intention. The US government is filled with greedy people and they want everyone’s money. That’s why Flock is here.
flock is installed as part of a mass surveillance apparatus by a company based in the US, is ANOTHER SAM altman-look alike, it uses AI to track people, cars, every little detail, even phone signals/apps. Thiel heavily invested in it. the flock cameras started to appear over residential areas, colleges, low income areas more than actual traffic areas like roads, highways,etc. by 2026, 300k+ was already installed, from less than 100k a year ago. they are doing this quickly so they can say there is too much to take down(City governments were totally complicit up until people were destroying them.
they started to appear in Canada already, i dont about EU yet. and yes its aligned with trump,ICE, palantir goals.
it is important where the flock cameras are targeting, everywhere people are likely to have anti-fascist gatherings, movements, protests,etc.
Thx for the explanation but… Who is financing all of this? I mean, the infrastructure alone, that can’t be cheap. Is it out of Flock’s own funds? Did the authorities ask for these to be installed? Don’t you need some kind of paperwork to install these? Idk, nevermind who / where they’re tracking… The data they track is a huge breach of privacy, don’t the US have any laws against that, wtf?!
Government at all levels. Local government puts them around parks to stalk children, state government has them all over the highways, the bigger city governments have them at every traffic light, the federal government has them god knows where.
That’s the scary part. We have no idea how deep the federal government is running this system and we don’t know if its combined with satellite imagery.
It very likely is though. This country has become an enemy to its own people.
The US is financing it with gifts of taxpayer dollars. No the US does not have any laws for rich people.
50 third world countries in a trench coat…
Axion is the real threat! Been around for a long time too. Not to mention the dozens of other companies that are currently operating surveillance cameras over most intersections in America.
I assume you mean Axon, formerly known as TASER and the supplier of most body-worn cameras.
you can use a saw, or destroy the camera, make it costly for them to replace it.
they tried it , but the company came back out to remove the paint/covering.
Good, sounds expensive. Keep doing it.
Use truck bed spray.
This is the way.
