Vigilante movement targets Flock surveillance cameras
19th cop in Georgia charged with misusing surveillance system. "...a supervisor with the Conyers police... Real-Time Crime Center... was arrested for allegedly misusing the Flock license plate reader system over 30 times to search for her domestic partner’s car..." reason.com/2026/07/24/g...
alexh888.bsky.social1This is good. Any technology has to have boundaries and clear guidelines. The problem of AI systems like this is that too often the system is built before the rules are even considered. In the end, Flock is a powerful tool for law enforcement, but like a gun, can be misused.
Progressive News Service1"Requiring a warrant would force officers to show probable cause, or a reasonable belief that a crime has taken place, before allowing access to ALPR camera network databases and the trove of private information compiled within [them]. This policy would... weed out bad actors..."
Flock has 115,000 license plate readers scanning billions of plates a month, cops have used them to stalk people, and ICE can tap the feeds. Now fusion centers are directing police to monitor anti-Flock advocacy as a national security matter. That's the tell. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Mark Hartig2Yet the Don't Tread On Me boyz still vote for these policies.
defeq79.bsky.social1It England they are bagging the cameras (black trash bag taped on a stick then cutting them down and smashing the cameras faster than put new ones up.
dan-druff.bsky.social1Expect these cameras to be one of the early main targets when the violence really gets going in the near future. And my guess is even his current supporters will be using them for target practice.
