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Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They also capture your car’s make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points. These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles—regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. While these systems can be useful for tracking stolen cars or wanted individuals, they are mostly used to track the movements of innocent people.
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If the surveillance cameras can’t even catch the persons who removed all of their cameras, then they have proven to be worthless at catching real criminals, with their only proven worth is stalking police officers ex wives.
People removing surveillance cameras taxpayers didn't approve aren't "criminals". The proper term is heroes.
That's just not true. Sometimes they haven't even met the women they're stalking.
All Flock cameras do is identify cars. If you aren't a car, they can't see you. They aren't just mindlessly recording everything like an ordinary camera, so police can't look through the recordings to identify you.
That is simply not true. The first 60 seconds of this Benn Jordan & 404 Media video proves otherwise - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo.
He goes on to talk about flocks condor cameras, which specifically track people.
Lol
Me when I'm a liar who's eternally loyal to peter theil:
I'm against Flock cameras. I didn't expect to run into people on the anti side who are in denial about how the things work. Like, Flock truthers.
They won't create a searchable database of faces, assuming they work as advertised. However, the footage is streamed to a server (sometimes publicly accessible) and available for manual review.
All the news stories I've seen talk about concerns over tracking movement. This is the first I've heard about people worried about the actual video.
Yes, the searchable DB is the big problem. But they work like regular IP cameras too: do you think police would buy them as much if they didn't? Or did stream but blurred out anything that wasn't a vehicle? If a crime happened recently near a Flock camera and they know when, they can absolutely use whatever it saw. Not to mention, third-party "AI" tools can be always used on raw footage from any camera for face recognition, event classification etc. so you're not safe even as a pedestrian without the police having "probable cause".
Look up Benn Jordan's videos on these things. They are NOT just license plate readers.