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Originally Posted By lygxis: The lack of self awareness (or worse, being self aware and putting on this false front) is ...
From the tweet: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HNS5nA4XMAAxyje?format=jpg&name=orig Chief Strategy Officer @flock_safety Originally Posted By lygxis: Originally Posted By Xyster7212: Originally Posted By TXBBQGuy: Saw a couple cut down in my area this week Have also noticed a large social media push from police departments and a couple officers i know posting these pre-prepared statements of "facts" about the flock system, obviously coordinated at some level as they're all very similar in the wording Same. Social media is awash in agencies posting very similar statements, all with the same smug, condescending "we know what's best for you peons" tone. The departments are getting savaged in the comment section of every post. I've also noticed the same uptick in individual officers posting the same talking points. It's 100% coordinated. The lack of self awareness (or worse, being self aware and putting on this false front) is ...
S2 Underground @s2_underground 4h First of all no, we're not doing this. I do not answer DMs from a company that is trying to do damage control AFTER they have ruined the trust of Americans. I do not have "good faith" debates with people who want to enslave me in a fishbowl that they can monitor at all times. Guess what guys: We don't actually have to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, or engage in "good faith" debates with bad actors. I don't have to justify my concerns about Flock to anyone. But since this condescension pissed me off, I will respond publicly, since Flock seems to want to keep our voices in the shadows and out of the public eye. Note the argument: "You see, King George specifically authorized quartering troops among you, I don't know what you're complaining about it's ALL LEGAL". Well, golly gee guys, I guess it's all right then, they made it legal. That's exactly the problem. Notice how nobody has a problem with standard security cameras. Public security cameras are not the problem...directly pumping the feed of every square inch of the country into a centralized federal database is one HELL of a problem and we must do everything within our rights as Americans to push back against efforts like this, if we are to have a future as a nation. Flock, much like Palantir, took the decently good idea of improving security, and implemented it in the most cartoonishly evil way possible at nearly every single step. They are working directly for all levels of government....not the citizenry. They use subterfuge, legal technicalities, and every single trick in the book to put up hundreds of cameras every single day. They constantly mislead the public about what databases their sensors feed into, and who they sell the metadata to. They have so little oversight that it's laughable, and ALL oversight involves the classic case of "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing". Flock has been caught lying MANY times, and misleading the public regarding what their cameras actually do. Newsflash...they don't just read license plates. They are also concealing which agencies purchase their data specifically so as to avoid getting warrants, and in doing so they have turned the ENTIRE COUNTRY into an open air prison....where THEY get to provide the intelligence data to those who enforce the laws as selectively as they please. And their defense for doing so? "Aww look at the cute puppy we rescued" or "We arrested one guy using our camera network, we're so AWESOME". You don't get to arrest one genuine criminal, and use that as justification to set up and entire Minority Report-esque surveillance system to surveil the entire country. You don't get to betray trust, and then be sad that people don't trust you. You don't get to cozy up to the boot of tyranny so much that you become the boot yourself, and then pretend to be just "one of the guys". We will not fall for this gaslighting, no matter how hard they try. For some reason, many people think that private companies can't be tyrants, which could not be further from the truth. At a certain point, a private company can be so heavily embedded within government, that they might as well BE the government. Except they are worse, because we don't even have the tiniest way to hold them accountable except for taking the billion-dollar company to court. That's my problem with Flock, Palantir, and pretty much every single other defense contractor in existence. I will NOT accept every single facet of my life being monitored, just in case a criminal commits a crime somewhere near me. I will NOT live in "ze pod", no matter which politician is in power, and I will not accept a future where people like this will dictate to me what my country should be. From the tweet: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HNS5nA4XMAAxyje?format=jpg&name=orig Chief Strategy Officer @flock_safety "Rahul Sidhu", eh? |
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Originally Posted By W202fan90: Looks like we’re having an effect, boyos! @Xyster7212  People on threads and reddit just found all my posts from late last year publicizing the new factory address, and they've started blasting it all over social media, making plans to visit and record, etc. It's gone slightly viral, and my exact wording is in most of the posts.  It warms the cockles of my heart to know that I might have helped caused those technofascists to feel a tiny bit of fear or stress. |
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Originally Posted By Xyster7212: People on threads and reddit just found all my posts from late last year publicizing the new factory address, and they've started blasting it all over social media, making plans to visit and record, etc. It's gone slightly viral, and my exact wording is in most of the posts. It warms the cockles of my heart to know that I might have helped caused those technofascists to feel a tiny bit of fear or stress.  I love it! |
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Originally Posted By Xyster7212: People on threads and reddit just found all my posts from late last year publicizing the new factory address, and they've started blasting it all over social media, making plans to visit and record, etc. It's gone slightly viral, and my exact wording is in most of the posts. It warms the cockles of my heart to know that I might have helped caused those technofascists to feel a tiny bit of fear or stress. |
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Originally Posted By Pokernut: The poster who let everyone know about the cop hater thread in the gate kept verified LEO only forum was banned for less As always when I bring this up. In before off topic. Oof. Ok, back on topic. 
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SC just busted cops in several departments for accessing the data for unapproved purposes. Here are two of them in Greer. https://www.wyff4.com/article/flock-camera-misuse-officers-fired-license-plate-reader/71935219 He's an example of a PoS cop who needs to be fired and stripped of his law enforcement credentials. There is no way a police chief that wants these things is that retarded that he actually believes what he's saying, he's straight up lying. I highlighted a couple of the really egregious sentences in the poorly written article (which seems to be the majority of news articles these days) but the whole article is worth reading just because it really shows just how screwed up these guy pushing these systems are- he hits all the usually talking points/lies about saving kids, recovering stolen cars, etc.  IRMO, S.C. — The Town of Irmo and the Irmo Police Department are addressing questions about the planned expansion of the town's Flock Safety camera network, saying the license plate reader system is designed to solve crimes—not track law-abiding residents. The response comes after the town announced plans to expand its network from 11 to 33 strategically placed camera locations throughout Irmo. Officials said misinformation circulating online prompted the department to explain how the technology works and what information it collects. According to the town, the cameras capture images of the rear of vehicles and read license plates while documenting vehicle characteristics. Officials said the cameras do not use facial recognition technology and are not designed to identify drivers or passengers. The cameras are installed primarily at major entry and exit points throughout town and are intended to help investigators identify vehicles connected to crimes, according to authorities. Police said the technology has already helped recover stolen vehicles, identify suspects and generate investigative leads in numerous cases. Irmo Police Chief Bobby Dale said the department's priority is using available technology to protect the community. "If a child is abducted, a violent criminal flees our town, or a family is desperately waiting for answers after a loved one goes missing, I never want to look them in the eye and say, 'We could have used technology that might have helped, but we chose not to,'" Dale said. "As Chief, I have a responsibility to use every lawful and responsible tool available to protect this community. That's exactly what these cameras are: a tool to help us solve crimes, find victims, and hold criminals accountable. When someone calls 911 because their child has been taken, their car has been stolen, or a dangerous suspect has fled through our town, they're not asking whether we used less technology. They're asking whether we did everything we reasonably could to help. My answer will always be yes. Our mission has never been to track the daily lives of honest citizens. Our mission is, and always will be, to protect this community and the people who call it home." The department also addressed several common misconceptions about the camera system. Officials said the cameras are not used to track residents' daily movements and are instead used to identify vehicles associated with criminal investigations. They also reiterated that the cameras do not use facial recognition technology and are intended to support investigations involving stolen vehicles, missing persons, kidnappings, violent crimes, burglaries and other serious offenses. According to the department, images are securely stored, access is limited to authorized law enforcement personnel and the information is used only for legitimate investigative and public safety purposes. The clarification follows a July 7 town workshop where council members discussed purchasing 22 additional Flock cameras. During that meeting, privacy advocates, including the South Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, raised concerns that widespread license plate tracking could infringe on freedom of movement. Town officials previously said photographing license plates on public roadways does not violate privacy laws because there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in public spaces. Residents with additional questions are encouraged to contact the Irmo Police Department at 803-781-8088. https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/irmo-police-privacy-concerns-flock-camera-network/101-3072fd0a-f9fd-4fed-bc1f-c10e72ca87ba |
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I know everybody likes to hate on Tucker these days but he actually does a pretty good job covering the situation and he has Ben Jordan on starting around the 30 minutes mark. Ben talks about his investigations into the system including how they want to have drones up all the time (the town I linked above, Irmo, is wanting over $700,000 and that includes a Flock drone). Around 54 minutes in he has a former Rhode Island police officer on who quit over his beliefs of it being unconstitutional. I bump the speed on almost all videos up 1.5x or so and find them much easier to listen to and this one is no different. I'm not sure if interviewers are actually talking that slow or if content creators are slowing their videos down for some reason, maybe I'm just nuts, but they sure seem slower these days.   Whistleblower Reveals the Largest Mass Surveillance Operation in History and the Coming Slave State |
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Originally Posted By Pokernut: Be very careful about taking things said on this site to other places, or the real world. Instant ban for arocking. Originally Posted By Pokernut: Originally Posted By Xyster7212: People on threads and reddit just found all my posts from late last year publicizing the new factory address, and they've started blasting it all over social media, making plans to visit and record, etc. It's gone slightly viral, and my exact wording is in most of the posts. It warms the cockles of my heart to know that I might have helped caused those technofascists to feel a tiny bit of fear or stress. You misunderstand: I posted it all over Threads, reddit, and Twitter, and some of those posts have now been rediscovered and spread. I also posted it here a bit, but I sure as hell didn't get it from arfcom.  I found it myself by scouring public records, flock marketing literature, and other sources. If they want to ban me for posting the address of a factory, then I don't want to be here anyway. Hell, it's even on Google maps now... I mean, I'm the one who put it there, but it's there nonetheless. Eta: and the guy banned for talking about the "GD cop haters" list was banned because posting elsewhere about stuff that happens in the private forums (LE, mil, etc.) is strictly forbidden. |
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Originally Posted By Xyster7212: You misunderstand: I posted it all over Threads, reddit, and Twitter, and some of those posts have now been rediscovered and spread. I also posted it here a bit, but I sure as hell didn't get it from arfcom. I found it myself by scouring public records, flock marketing literature, and other sources. If they want to ban me for posting the address of a factory, then I don't want to be here anyway. Hell, it's even on Google maps now... I mean, I'm the one who put it there, but it's there nonetheless. Eta: and the guy banned for talking about the "GD cop haters" list was banned because posting elsewhere about stuff that happens in the private forums (LE, mil, etc.) is strictly forbidden. |
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https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/ “This is a classic bait-and-switch. Your town was pitched a tool to catch stolen cars and find missing kids,” Tom Bowman, policy counsel, security & surveillance, at the Center for Democracy & Technology, told 404 Media in a statement. Instead, cops now have the capability to search for a specific person or description of a person across a wealth of camera networks at once. “It's like being sold a smoke detector and only later finding out it's been recording every conversation in your house.” 💡 Do you know anything else about Flock? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at [email protected]. The searches sometimes stretch across dozens or even nearly a hundred networks of Flock cameras at once. Sometimes the searches are so vague that they can pull up images of innocent or unrelated people. Other examples in the data reviewed by 404 Media include: Dunwoody GA PD looking for someone wearing a “backpack,” and later “person walking” and “black sweatshirt.” The latter two searches were across nine networks of cameras each Pocatello ID PD searching for “a male on foot” across 38 cameras. Another search was “atlanta falcons,” referencing the NFL team Corona CA PD searching for “american flag shirt” and “dodger shirt.” Milford CT PD looking for “male with tattoos,” “male with brown hair,” and “woman blue shirt,” across more than a hundred cameras The California Highway Patrol looking for someone wearing a “gray shirt” across 274 cameras The Texas Department of Public Safety searching 96 networks of cameras for “man weasring [sic] a black t-shirt and shorts.” Florence SC PD looking for “person with gun” across 61 cameras Chamblee GA PD searching 85 camera networks for “white woman wearing grey shirt, blonde hair, black shorts with blue and white shoes.” The agency also searched for “female with ugg boots.” Brookhaven GA PD looking for “tall man.” Some searches referenced the race of the person authorities were looking for. The California Highway Patrol was “Looking for a white male about 6ft 1in tall, longer brown hair almost to his shoulders, slender build, will have been wearing blue jeans, boots with white paint stains on the toes and possibly carrying a black helmet.” Atlanta GA PD searched for “non caucasion [sic] male wearing blue shirt blue pants white hat.” Some searches are part of an “investigation,” according to the “reason” field in the data. Others are part of a missing persons case. In some it is not clear what the reason for the search was because it is redacted. “Unfortunately, this ability to search cameras as though doing a search engine inquiry is increasingly common for surveillance cameras,” Beryl Lipton, senior investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told 404 Media. “AI-enabled video analysis across reams of footage exacerbates the risk that law-abiding people minding their own business end up with police observing them without their knowledge and opens them to possibly being implicated in a crime or being treated as a criminal. This is what happens when you start feeding camera and signals feeds to ai. But the AI-analyzed feeds are not entirely divorced from ALPR; Flock has designed the systems to work in tandem. Kevin Cox, a Flock consultant who previously worked for the Grand Prairie Police Department in Texas, previously said, “video combined with the LPR evidence of placing a vehicle at the scene or nearby is an incredibly game changing experience into the prosecutorial chain of events.” tFlock launched FreeForm in February 2025, although the company’s announcement at the time focused on searches related to vehicles. Some FreeForm searches 404 Media reviewed indicate a target’s potential political affiliation, such as the Anne Arundel County MD PD searching 198 networks for “white jeep with trump flag.” Yes, we REALLLY want to give THIS to people after we saw what they'd do during covid. Some prick saw this and thought it was a great idea and that it was RIGHT to do.  The Dark Knight - High Frequency Generator Scene They think they can use it safely. After all, they just want to bring order...  Want to know the character of the people who think they should be trusted with this? n May 2025, 404 Media revealed Flock planned to use hacked data as part of a massive people lookup tool. The idea was to use information from data brokers and data breaches to “jump from LPR [license plate reader] to person,” according to internal Flock meeting audio 404 Media previously obtained. Flock scrapped the plan to use hacked data after 404 Media’s coverage and internal pressure. |
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Originally Posted By ffemt596: More Georgia cops busted Let's be real, they do this every day..... |
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Originally Posted By lygxis: https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/ This is what happens when you start feeding camera and signals feeds to ai. Yes, we REALLLY want to give THIS to people after we saw what they'd do during covid. Some prick saw this and thought it was a great idea and that it was RIGHT to do.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRELLH86EdoThey think they can use it safely. After all, they just want to bring order... https://a-static.besthdwallpaper.com/eye-of-sauron-from-the-lord-of-the-rings-wallpaper-3840x2160-117030_54.jpg Want to know the character of the people who think they should be trusted with this? “If it saves just one RAM Promaster Van…” |
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Originally Posted By ffemt596: More Georgia cops busted Damn, beat me to it 3 more cops, this time at Fayetteville PD. They don't seem to publish a number of sworn employees, but everything I can find puts it in the 40-60 range. That percentage seems to be creeping up... |
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Originally Posted By Xyster7212: Damn, beat me to it 3 more cops, this time at Fayetteville PD. They don't seem to publish a number of sworn employees, but everything I can find puts it in the 40-60 range. That percentage seems to be creeping up... Just another “isolated incident” involving “a few bad cops”.
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Originally Posted By W202fan90: “If it saves just one RAM Promaster Van…” Originally Posted By W202fan90: Originally Posted By lygxis: https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/ This is what happens when you start feeding camera and signals feeds to ai. Yes, we REALLLY want to give THIS to people after we saw what they'd do during covid. Some prick saw this and thought it was a great idea and that it was RIGHT to do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRELLH86EdoThey think they can use it safely. After all, they just want to bring order... https://a-static.besthdwallpaper.com/eye-of-sauron-from-the-lord-of-the-rings-wallpaper-3840x2160-117030_54.jpg Want to know the character of the people who think they should be trusted with this? “If it saves just one RAM Promaster Van…” 
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Well, it wouldn’t be, cause I wouldn’t drive a fucking Nissan.
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Originally Posted By W202fan90: Well, it wouldn’t be, cause I wouldn’t drive a fucking Nissan. Originally Posted By W202fan90: Well, it wouldn’t be, cause I wouldn’t drive a fucking Nissan. Years ago, I was tasked with selecting and buying new fleet vehicles (i.e. service vans) for a fledgling service organization. I test drove the high roof versions of the Ford Transit, Nissan NV, and Promaster (I disqualified the Mercedes Sprinter before starting, obviously). The Promaster was the biggest pile of shit I've ever driven, before or since. It was brand new, yet somehow already felt worn out. Dangerously slow, full of rattles, closing the doors sounded like dumping out a recycling bin full of beer cans, and all interior/exterior panels were clearly installed by employees in a jobs program for blind workers. I'd be furious if my stolen Promaster was recovered. |
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Originally Posted By Xyster7212: Years ago, I was tasked with selecting and buying new fleet vehicles (i.e. service vans) for a fledgling service organization. I test drove the high roof versions of the Ford Transit, Nissan NV, and Promaster (I disqualified the Mercedes Sprinter before starting, obviously). The Promaster was the biggest pile of shit I've ever driven, before or since. It was brand new, yet somehow already felt worn out. Dangerously slow, full of rattles, closing the doors sounded like dumping out a recycling bin full of beer cans, and all interior/exterior panels were clearly installed by employees in a jobs program for blind workers. I'd be furious if my stolen Promaster was recovered. Why did you DQ the MBZ Sprinter? Price? Anti-Nazi?
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Originally Posted By M4-AK: A Secretive and Deceptive group is building a massive surveillance network and nobody noticed. Now the public is becoming aware of the dangers. A month ago, people were believing their talking points. Funny, the ones responsible for “protecting and serving” sure still believe them. |
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Behind a paywall - up to you to use your paywall remover of choice. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/07/17/flock-ceo-sorry-for-labelling-activists-terrorists/ Garrett Langley is super sorry for calling people terrorists: “My comments were a mistake and I apologize,” he says. “There are groups today that have real valid criticisms of the business, and I think what's changed for us is, as we've listened to them and heard them out, what we're trying to do is find this balance. We believe in a world where we can have safety and privacy.” You're supposedly sorry now that the narrative has turned against you, and your PR firm begged you issue an apology. Too late, pencil dick. And what part of the "listening and hearing them out" process involves getting law enforcement agencies all over the country to post your condescending talking points that basically say, "you're all misinformed and naive - we're not changing a damn thing"? |
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I swear, this mind virus is in the air. https://orchestraos.com/ Google Search for the physical world Orchestra turns the world's cameras into a live, searchable feed — with autonomous agents that act on what they see. Request demo Business Insider · Exclusive · July 2026 “A search engine for the physical world.” Business Insider → TechCrunch Media Top 10 Government Startups in Battlefield Stanford Graduate School of Business Academia Case Study World Economic Forum Recognition Smart Cities Council Delegate A growing real-world intelligence network 110+ live cameras deployed across San Francisco. Millions of real-world events indexed. Live coverage across Russian Hill, Nob Hill, Tenderloin, North Beach, SoMa, and Marina. Fullscreen Fullscreen Click any demo to view fullscreen. How Orchestra works 01 Cameras become sensors Live cameras become a real-time perception network. 02 Reality gets structured AI converts video into entities, events, timelines, and locations. 03 The physical world becomes searchable Search by place, time, object, vehicle, or incident. The world model Omniscience: one real-time world model Every person and vehicle identified with rich descriptions and stitched into a single identity — each sighting traceable back to the source footage. Built on ground-truth data that powers autonomous agents on top. 2M+ detections indexed / day 24/7 always-on live coverage 3 autonomous agents live Another megalist: https://theautowire.com/2026/07/17/tracking-the-flock-a-running-record-of-reported-license-plate-camera-misuse/ People still getting suckered by the siren's call: https://www.klcc.org/politics-government/2026-07-17/junction-city-flock-license-plate-cameras-trial Junction City could be the latest Oregon community to install automatic license plate cameras. The city is considering a 90-day trial. Flock, one of the most popular vendors, makes searchable, digital fingerprints of cars using license plates, vehicle color or other characteristics. It can also track bicycles. During a meeting Tuesday, Junction City Police Chief Mark Waddell said the company had offered the city an 8-camera, free trial. He said the technology could help police more quickly resolve missing person cases, or other public safety calls. “The technology will never replace good police work, sound judgement or constitutional policing,” Waddell said. “It's simply another tool, one that helps us respond faster, when lives may be at risk." Some community members, including Junction City resident Rachael Steen-Larsen, testified against the potential contract with Flock, saying the cameras would surveil innocent people and violate civil liberties. “They collect information on everyone first and ask questions later,” Steen-Larsen said. “That changes the relationship between citizens and their government. Instead of conducting targeted investigations based on evidence, it creates a searchable record of the moments of movements of ordinary people, a record that is vulnerable to misuse.”
LOL News picking it up:  Flock AI audit tool flags suspicious police searches as misuse cases mount in Georgia They say they found 20 cases. Makes you wonder how many did it and got away with it. No, josh thomas, you logging the searches and flagging some subset of them doesn't justify treating everyone like a criminal and a child "for our good." OH, and according to the video, flock is now taking information out of the reports that you can use to see if flock has stalked you. What, do you have something to hide flock? Show it to us, for your own good... if it just stops one bad event, wouldn't you want it? Go ahead, argue against this, I dare you - your arguments you use against it will work against your very behaviors. |
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/victory-flock-ends-rollout-audio-distress-detection-human-voices Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify signs of “human distress.” In October 2025, EFF warned the public that Flock was rolling out a new feature called “Distress Detection” that would be deployed through their acoustic gunshot detection devices (formerly known as Flock Raven, now called Audio Detection). This feature purported to use high-powered microphones scattered throughout a city to search for sounds of human distress, with original advertisements from the product indicating it would search for “screaming.” (Since the publication of our original blog post, Flock quietly amended the ad on this webpage to say “distress” instead of “screaming.”) Now, Flock has published a blog post stating that “[a]fter careful consideration and community consultation, we decided to remove the feature.” Good riddance. We said it when the product was announced and we’ll say it again: this was a misguided and dangerous feature because of the civil liberties concerns it poses, the possibility it could summon armed police to every loud interaction happening on the street, and because in several places this type of spying would be illegal under state eavesdropping laws. ---------------  
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To add onto this creepy tracking stuff: I have Ring cameras at my dad's house, he wanted them put up on the porch and the side where he parks his car. Well Ring did this promotional thing that when you get motion notifications on your phone, it gives you a short AI summary of what's going on. Instead of "motion detected on driveway", it was my dad walking out to wash his car. It said "Person walking with a blue bucket". He recently had to clear some tree limbs that came down next to the driveway and as he was using a corded chainsaw, an alert said "Person in driveway with a dangerous tool". I've always been scared to bring anything gun related by those cameras because I had a feeling that it was going to know what a gun is and possibly log something or at the worse, contact law enforcement. If it can know what a chainsaw is, verses say other tools that weren't labeled "dangerous", then it certainly knows what a gun is. Imagine you go out to your car with your guns in gun cases. Ring will pick it up, then Flock cameras will track you to the range. In an instant, all that data will be collected. Years down the road when you "lose them in a boating accident", in probably 15 minutes a hostile administration can throw enough evidence together to charge you. The next time you go out, the cops get a warrant notification and will immediately pick you up. |
 https://abc13.com/post/fort-bend-county-sheriffs-office-lieutenant-admits-improper-use-flock-cameras-docs/19528986/ Per a reddit poster claiming to be the victim, the Lt was tracking her ex husband's new wife. It doesn't sound like she was fired or charged. Just a stern note in her permanent file, I'm sure. |
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Originally Posted By Xyster7212: When I come to power, boomers won't have civil rights to violate. Originally Posted By Xyster7212: Originally Posted By W202fan90: Originally Posted By Xyster7212: There it is - the "we need to violate civil rights to protect children" angle. The trump card that no decent person can argue against. Because if we take away Flock, we're enabling child sex abuse, right? Maybe that works on the suburban moms, but this is a gun forum - "think of the children" has been used against us for decades, so it has no power here. These folks would agree with you, I'm sure: https://actionfund.sandyhookpromise.org/ https://www.bradyunited.org/take-action/join-movement/team-enough Except when using bear mace on a boomer in the park? (Kidding, don’t hate me.) When I come to power, boomers won't have civil rights to violate. Those are hateful words. |
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Originally Posted By apexcrusade: I don't care.  Originally Posted By apexcrusade: Originally Posted By H8train375: I used Flock extensively for two of my cases I had during my on call days this week. I hope it triggers everyone in this thread. I don't care. 🫶😂😂😂 |
What kind of dystopian hellscape have we built?
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Originally Posted By apexcrusade: Those are hateful words. Originally Posted By apexcrusade: Originally Posted By Xyster7212: Originally Posted By W202fan90: Originally Posted By Xyster7212: There it is - the "we need to violate civil rights to protect children" angle. The trump card that no decent person can argue against. Because if we take away Flock, we're enabling child sex abuse, right? Maybe that works on the suburban moms, but this is a gun forum - "think of the children" has been used against us for decades, so it has no power here. These folks would agree with you, I'm sure: https://actionfund.sandyhookpromise.org/ https://www.bradyunited.org/take-action/join-movement/team-enough Except when using bear mace on a boomer in the park? (Kidding, don’t hate me.) When I come to power, boomers won't have civil rights to violate. Those are hateful words. I'm just speaking my truth. Don't try to invalidate my lived experience. 
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Originally Posted By Xyster7212: I'm just speaking my truth. Don't try to invalidate my lived experience. https://media2.giphy.com/media/o0qt6rD5pLZSo2pqsU/200.webp?cid=8dc8958cl3gdjbll07d1yl454waqoh4cra5mcydi2w62xwu6&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200.webp&ct=g Originally Posted By Xyster7212: Originally Posted By apexcrusade: Originally Posted By Xyster7212: Originally Posted By W202fan90: Originally Posted By Xyster7212: There it is - the "we need to violate civil rights to protect children" angle. The trump card that no decent person can argue against. Because if we take away Flock, we're enabling child sex abuse, right? Maybe that works on the suburban moms, but this is a gun forum - "think of the children" has been used against us for decades, so it has no power here. These folks would agree with you, I'm sure: https://actionfund.sandyhookpromise.org/ https://www.bradyunited.org/take-action/join-movement/team-enough Except when using bear mace on a boomer in the park? (Kidding, don’t hate me.) When I come to power, boomers won't have civil rights to violate. Those are hateful words. I'm just speaking my truth. Don't try to invalidate my lived experience. https://media2.giphy.com/media/o0qt6rD5pLZSo2pqsU/200.webp?cid=8dc8958cl3gdjbll07d1yl454waqoh4cra5mcydi2w62xwu6&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200.webp&ct=g I'm going to misgender you if you don't watch out. |
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Originally Posted By Xyster7212:Reputation for serious reliability issues and expensive service at the time. I think the van was a 2020'ish. It sure scared me off MB vans. Jay |
Whites tend not to riot. They mostly have three speeds:
Uninvolved, Peaceful but Passionate Protesting, or Genocide
Uninvolved, Peaceful but Passionate Protesting, or Genocide
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Originally Posted By Morgan321: Need a concerted effort to publicize how it can identify and track trannys, antifa, and anybody with bright colored hair. 
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Always blame autocorrect.
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Originally Posted By lygxis: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/victory-flock-ends-rollout-audio-distress-detection-human-voices --------------- https://i.postimg.cc/025TmcjY/npc-cant-trust-people-freedom-government-ai-surveillance-healthcare-money.webp https://i.postimg.cc/yY6M9vxc/x-mad-men-pitch-flock-cameras-every-government-building-remove-elsewhere.webp Originally Posted By lygxis: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/victory-flock-ends-rollout-audio-distress-detection-human-voices Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify signs of “human distress.” In October 2025, EFF warned the public that Flock was rolling out a new feature called “Distress Detection” that would be deployed through their acoustic gunshot detection devices (formerly known as Flock Raven, now called Audio Detection). This feature purported to use high-powered microphones scattered throughout a city to search for sounds of human distress, with original advertisements from the product indicating it would search for “screaming.” (Since the publication of our original blog post, Flock quietly amended the ad on this webpage to say “distress” instead of “screaming.”) Now, Flock has published a blog post stating that “[a]fter careful consideration and community consultation, we decided to remove the feature.” Good riddance. We said it when the product was announced and we’ll say it again: this was a misguided and dangerous feature because of the civil liberties concerns it poses, the possibility it could summon armed police to every loud interaction happening on the street, and because in several places this type of spying would be illegal under state eavesdropping laws. --------------- https://i.postimg.cc/025TmcjY/npc-cant-trust-people-freedom-government-ai-surveillance-healthcare-money.webp https://i.postimg.cc/yY6M9vxc/x-mad-men-pitch-flock-cameras-every-government-building-remove-elsewhere.webp Well that validates what I've been saying for years, that those things were microphones and if they could pick up gunshots they were also capable of listening to what people within range were saying. Definitely saving that article to send to a couple of people who said I was paranoid. All of the data they've been collecting has been used to train their AI models and now it's being used to improve upon it for increased surveillance. And flock's CEO comes across as a total sociopath, that apology is as insincere as five year old me was every time I got caught and apologized for eating ice cream out of the container (yeah, that happened a couple of times; karma got me back though as I'm now lactose intolerant ).
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| These faggots installed one on my island without telling anyone, and I learned about it over IG. A state highway terminates on the island, giving them jurisdiction to install it without any heads-up to the town. I'm talking to a friend who's on the Board of Aldermen. So far, I've been able to check my rebellious attitude about the whole thing, but I'm not above certain courses of action... |
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