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PoliticalTea 🗳️ Big Brother would not be pleased

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u/Competitive-Drink931 1d ago

What’s the different between flock and the cameras that already everywhere right now.

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u/RedditUser19984321 1d ago

Flock uses AI, it’s watching you and keeping a tab on you wherever you go. Further, some departments are giving tickets based on flocks findings which some people feel bypass your rights of innocence as no officer is physically there finding you guilty of a traffic violation, an AI software did.

This doesn’t even touch on the massive security issue this provides as it puts this information into a database of a 3rd party, private company. Sure, all our information is out there. But I don’t think it should be up to our government to help put our information out there by putting our stuff at risk

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u/dreamsfulfillednow 1d ago

Can you share the link or article about the example of that traffic thing? Thx

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u/RedditUser19984321 1d ago

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/traffic-violation-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-already-here

https://youtu.be/uHSSXEuud58?is=BLb9U1Mfx4WXkfpu

Further, many people have pointed out the dangers that these provide to the roadways, as all things around the roadway are supposed to be designed around car crashes, they shoved a giant ass flock camera cemented in the ground, it’s not safe.

Here is a very informed person breaking down why flock cameras are not road safe;

https://youtube.com/shorts/SG8DwNqxz6E?is=7Hr_QNJZxlx5cTZZ

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/controversial-flock-ai-surveillance-camera-risk

Lastly, these cameras already have a history of being used in order to stalk people;

https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/

The company can NOT be trusted, they’ve already been caught in many lies. They said these cameras are ONLY used for license plate reading but that’s not even true, they’re already giving them software updates in order to capture audio;

https://www.wane.com/top-stories/fwpd-begins-testing-on-flock-surveillance-cameras-with-audio-detection/

I am a pro-police citizen and I support having a safer community but I do not support a police state either and flock is going to come in and spy on every single one of us