Thank you for this great information! Hovey Benjamin just did a great satirical piece on his IG page, "I Need Flock on My Block," https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbn6JtSBbGS/.
I had a long chat with our police chief about the flock cameras in our town. He emphasized the ability of the department to “cut off“ any outside access. He emphasize that the use was audited monthly. I personally think he’s a little naïve. But the most interesting thing he said was that people don’t realize that flock is only one of numerous vendors of these detection devices and not all are made equal. So all flock is getting all the attention. There’s lots of other models out there which are not being as carefully scrutinized. We all need to take really close attention to how this is actually being employed or deployed in our communities. There’s a lot of support for them.
Police state, surveillance society, we are now so wrapped up in technology it is bound to ultimately strangle us. Data centers built to further stress our resources as the global population numbering in the billions demands more and more from the earth. Humans have created their own destruction and in their mad march for more of the same are oblivious to their own foolishness. And so the ending is clear, for no one can avoid the inevitable: death.
I agree we have created our own destruction and the mad chase for money will undermine any attempts at reining it in. Unless every one of us wakes up and demands different.
Thank you for the information. But I'm a little annoyed at the emphasis on "going to our city" and "contacting our council" or "our police department." Many many of us travel through multiple towns and counties and even states in our daily business. There needs to be a better avenue to combat this warrantless and sneaky invasion of our privacy.
I took a 3.8 mile bike ride through a neighboring city today. In 3.8miles I passed 10 flock cameras. I took a longer route back and passed 12 cameras. If that’s not a violation of my 4th amendment right I don’t know what is? Tear these fucking things down.
it is encouraging to see that the American Civil society is now joining hands across party lines to tell Flock Safety to ‘get the Flock out’ of their local communities and their states.
The problem of escalating data collection is real, and cameras are already everywhere — in glasses, phones, cars, bike helmets, drones, and fixed installations — and they will only continue to proliferate.
FrykenScope™ is an attempt to reduce this problem. The system only receives positional data, timestamps, and direction from voluntarily connected fixed or mobile cameras — no images.
If an incident needs to be investigated at a specific place and time, the police can request footage only from cameras that actually could see the event. Topographic and directional analysis automatically filters out all devices that had obstacles or the wrong orientation.
The entire point is to minimize unnecessary data collection while still enabling reconstruction of events when required.
We need to get rid of those flock cameras.
Thank you for providing this information.
Thank you for this great information! Hovey Benjamin just did a great satirical piece on his IG page, "I Need Flock on My Block," https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbn6JtSBbGS/.
I had a long chat with our police chief about the flock cameras in our town. He emphasized the ability of the department to “cut off“ any outside access. He emphasize that the use was audited monthly. I personally think he’s a little naïve. But the most interesting thing he said was that people don’t realize that flock is only one of numerous vendors of these detection devices and not all are made equal. So all flock is getting all the attention. There’s lots of other models out there which are not being as carefully scrutinized. We all need to take really close attention to how this is actually being employed or deployed in our communities. There’s a lot of support for them.
We Are What Is Left
There comes a point when a people have to stop waiting for someone else to become the force of accountability on their behalf.
The responsibility has returned to where it always finally belonged.
To the people.
If we want accountability, we must become a people capable of demanding it.
If we want truth, we must stop excusing lies when they benefit our side.
If we want dignity, we must stop participating in dehumanization.
If we want peace, we must reject violence and vengeance as civic answers.
If we want representation, we must stop acting as though public life belongs only to those already in power.
Power must answer to the people.
That is the ground.
That is the standard.
That is where we can begin.
This should terrify everyone.
It did me! But I appreciate this scary post - being an ostrich can be dangerous, especially with our current regime.
Police state, surveillance society, we are now so wrapped up in technology it is bound to ultimately strangle us. Data centers built to further stress our resources as the global population numbering in the billions demands more and more from the earth. Humans have created their own destruction and in their mad march for more of the same are oblivious to their own foolishness. And so the ending is clear, for no one can avoid the inevitable: death.
I agree we have created our own destruction and the mad chase for money will undermine any attempts at reining it in. Unless every one of us wakes up and demands different.
Thank you for the information. But I'm a little annoyed at the emphasis on "going to our city" and "contacting our council" or "our police department." Many many of us travel through multiple towns and counties and even states in our daily business. There needs to be a better avenue to combat this warrantless and sneaky invasion of our privacy.
Flock Safety’s Camera Empire Hit a Wall: Police Misuse, Stalking Scandals, and the Limits of “Tightening Controls”
https://sourav2h.substack.com/p/flock-safetys-camera-empire-hit-a
Absolutely outrageous
The Los Angeles Police Department's Office of Inspector General found a 32.3 percent false positive rate.
I took a 3.8 mile bike ride through a neighboring city today. In 3.8miles I passed 10 flock cameras. I took a longer route back and passed 12 cameras. If that’s not a violation of my 4th amendment right I don’t know what is? Tear these fucking things down.
it is encouraging to see that the American Civil society is now joining hands across party lines to tell Flock Safety to ‘get the Flock out’ of their local communities and their states.
https://theburningissue.substack.com/p/americans-are-now-saying-get-the?r=54hdda&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
The problem of escalating data collection is real, and cameras are already everywhere — in glasses, phones, cars, bike helmets, drones, and fixed installations — and they will only continue to proliferate.
FrykenScope™ is an attempt to reduce this problem. The system only receives positional data, timestamps, and direction from voluntarily connected fixed or mobile cameras — no images.
If an incident needs to be investigated at a specific place and time, the police can request footage only from cameras that actually could see the event. Topographic and directional analysis automatically filters out all devices that had obstacles or the wrong orientation.
The entire point is to minimize unnecessary data collection while still enabling reconstruction of events when required.
More about the project FrykenScope™ can be found here: [FrykenScope™](https://goldenmosquito.com/frykenscope-geospatial-line-of-sight-validation-for-event-reconstruction/)
They should just be called Big Brother surveillance cameras.
No flock cameras in my city but it does use drones. Thanks for this information!
Thank you for this post. It scared the crap out of me, but it's something I needed to know about.