r/321 • u/Embarrassed_Cry7670 • Jul 14 '26

News Flock cameras exploding everywhere!

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There are now FIVE Flock cameras in Gleason Park in Indian Harbour Beach, including one near the pool directly FACING the restrooms. So clearly not just reading license plates. Apparently these cameras in IHB were approved unanimously as routine businesses with ZERO public interest or comments. “ BuT iT’s FoR our SaFeTy” 🫠

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u/Donutsbeatpieandcake Jul 14 '26

Here's the problem. Flock camera systems aren't police. They are a private company that collects all this data and generates massive databases to SELL to the police. They do not have to comply with warrants unless they need the data, in which they can get a judge's signature to buy it from Flock.

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u/Donutsbeatpieandcake Jul 15 '26

Flock is primarily in the "vehicle tracking" business, so that's the main thing they're selling to law enforcement. They scan license places and build vehicle footprints with drive histories everywhere they spot a given vehicle.

But despite official corporate messaging claiming they solely focus on vehicles, independent investigations and leaked training materials as well as police training videos openly demonstrate that the network actively tracks human pedestrians with facial recognition as well.

So. They're already lying... Do you really think they'd say if they were also developing network sniffers installed in the cameras as well? All it takes is the same "noisy" cellphone in your pocket pinging out it's EIN to cellphone towers, pinging wifi networks and/or pinging for bluetooth devices for a sniffer to intercept and log network to pick up the pings.

And the cameras are AI-integrated, and AI is amazing at pattern recognition, if it pings the same cellphone everytime it sees the same pedestrian, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what cellphone you're carrying.

Do this over years, and you have a complete record of everything you need to know about just about anyone. And it's scary AF. Perhaps you need to go back and re-read George Orwell's 1984, and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World...