Flock Safety license-plate cameras face bipartisan privacy scrutiny as 23 jurisdictions cancel use
The LAPD declined to renew its Flock contract after an internal audit found 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in just two months — a 32.3% false-positive rate. www.gadgetreview.com/one-in-three...
But not because of ethical concerns about mass-surveillance. Got it.
"Declined to renew" is not the same as taking the cameras down. They are still operational and still watching you.
So they're just going to go with a different surveillance company instead of abandoning these dystopian ambitions.
And the adolescent behavior of officers using it to track women.
How many “false positives” led to police drawing their guns on a traffic stop?
Not to mention cops abusing the tech for personal reasons. bsky.app/profile/eddi...
LOL it’s bad, but it’s also shitty
there has never been an incentive to avoid false positives on these cameras. the point is mass surveillance, you get more of that when your algorithm is overly sensitive
Why is all the new technology that is push upon the public all over-rated and/or broken and not performing as promised. All of it! There is a definite pattern clearly including Ai & Data Centers. What is wrong with people jumping right in and off the cliff?
It's great that they're not renewing the contract, but it's for performance not because we don't want to be surveilled. It's not enough to just not renew a contract, another provider could be installed instead of Flock. PLEASE get involved locally to have your municipality BAN these and any LPRs.
You have to suck so hard to get the LAPD to bail.
Not all heroes wear capes. #Resist
AI is not conscious and cannot replace the lowliest human employee.
Considering the abuse by police and others using these cameras for personal use and defective false positives should be more than enough to remove them all!
Sure, it'd be great if they ditched Flock for ethical reason, but that it was because it's inefficient trash tech that wastes everyone's time is okay, too.
Organized money is not only taking our land, power, and water -- they're coming for our privacy too. Flock surveillance cameras aren't just for law enforcement. They're for corporations to watch us. Public safety is one thing. Mass surveillance is another.
Sign our petition to stop Flock mass surveillance in Texas >> www.claytontuckertx.com/flock #Texas #ProtectTexas #Privacy #FlockCameras
Axon cameras(Trump’s surveillance company) in Bexar County has been used to watch Americans to track anyone going to the border… to create pre-text for stops. www.ksat.com/news/texas/2...
Big Brother is everywhere. "A company called BusPatrol has its cameras installed in thousands of school buses. Plans to turn these cameras into ALPRs were reported in May, potentially giving law enforcement agencies access to the resulting data." www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Citizens need to demand legislation banning the use of these cameras and street-facing Ring (& Ring type) cameras. We have the right to live in a surveillance-free society.
Well, that’s one way to get kids interested in STEM, so they can learn to make signal jammers or hack the cameras to act as signal relays for YouTube brainrot.
I asked for Flock cameras in TN and this is what I found. www.maryvilleprivacy.org/maryville-re... All cities in TN should do this while lawmakers decide on their legality, and we take them to court for invasion of privacy. #GoodTroubleInTN
What Maryville found has played out nationally: 82 Flock contracts canceled across 28 states since 2021, 39 of them in 2026's first five months. In most cases the trigger was a public records request — agencies with no data-sharing agreement had run hundreds of thousands of plate searches.
My family will say they like them.🤦♀️
I found about this site for flock cameras location and was floored at how many in our city. maps.deflock.org?lat=32.5380&...
I’m going to have have to figure out how to attend these city council meetings and whatever else I can get into. They are not going to let us have any peace. We need to flip the script.
Flock cameras, a brand of automated license plate readers that employ A.I. to identify and track vehicles, has divided the public and rattled civil liberties watchdogs. Here's why.
Is the public divided? Seems to me like the public pretty solidly don't want them.
rare issue with bipartisan agreement, everyone hates these things, but NYT still has to present it as "divided the public"
Here is the gift article link. You can check your zip code and see where they are. www.nytimes.com/article/floc...
Maybe tracking down women who had an abortion? www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
NYT embracing that AI slop/SEO headline.
we're not upset: we just want the gold, silver, copper and other precious metals in the cameras.
These Flock cameras is getting to be a HUGE story, much bigger than most people realize and it affects every one of us. Check the number of stationary cameras and their locations of Flock cameras in YOUR community. Deflock.org
Checked local Home Depot parking lot access streets in nearby Foster City…a camera found at each entry to the lot!🤔
This is an excellent resource for all of us...I found my community...thank you!
They're not just street poles. Home Depot runs Flock cameras at 233 California stores — every plate logged into a law-enforcement database nationwide. No stated limit on immigration sharing. Three lawsuits this year. https://www.thebluf.news/p/home-depot-flock-alpr-surveillance-lawsuits
It is SO ODD that the cameras are not on interstates or expressways. One would think if they were MONITORING CRIME, like stolen vehicles, missing children, road rage incidents, etc. that’s the first place they would install them. #FlockCameras
Home Depot has them. Smile! You’re on candid camera 📸