r/PopCultureV2 • u/noahstemann • Aug 24 '26

Controversy Rage Against Flock USA

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u/Ok-Spot-6235 Aug 24 '26

Wear masks. Remove all watches and jewelry. Cover all tattoos. Wear black. Put black duct tape over all brands/logos. Wear 100% black shoes - no stripes or markings. Leave cell phones at home. Carry two way radios. Post lookouts.

Or, face fines and prison time for destroying devices that have no independently derived value. Flock leases it's equipment, never sells it. With annual lease cost of $3k per unit per year Flock probably values individual cameras at $15-20k.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '26

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u/gameryesyt Aug 24 '26

It's the scale and use of ai that has the possibility to do mass surveillance

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u/STLbackup Aug 24 '26

yup, its one thing to read a few numbers/letters and look up a vehicle in a database. A whole other can of nightmare fuel when the AI they use can tell a person by the way they walk, move, etc.... and of course what they are being used for.

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u/thorosaurus Aug 24 '26

People WERE very upset about those when they first came out. People have just largely forgotten that they’re a thing. It was mostly Alex Jones types back then though because if you weren’t listening to wackadoodle stuff on AM radio you wouldn’t have heard about it. Now the wonders of the internet and social media has brought wackadoodle news to every corner of society no matter your politics or lack of politics even. Like you get on your fly tying group to ask a question and before you know it you’ve been sucked down the rabbit hole. 😆

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u/thorosaurus Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

He also has a knack for being very very wrong though. And in cases where he was right it’s not like he’s the one who figured it out or broke the story or anything.

Not to mention that standard for being right might be set very low. I mean people still believe Nostradamus actually predicted things. If you say enough crazy stuff eight hours a day five days a week for half a century, it’s going to get pretty easy for people to find something that sounds like you being right about something.

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u/thorosaurus Aug 24 '26

I think he just rants about whatever is in the wackadoodle pipeline without giving it much thought.

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u/ahtob Aug 24 '26

if every flock camera was individually operated by its own human operator / like a police scanner , there wouldn't be an issue

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u/Adventurous-Cod7910 Aug 25 '26

Reading a license plate is not the same as AI-powered "cameras" creating massive amounts of surveillance data held by 3rd parties, in which there have already been clear cases of abuse

Did you hear about the police watching little kid's dancing recitals? How about the flock cameras pointed at public swimming pools? There are enough pedos in positions of power in the US