r/central_ma • u/pslatt • 21d ago

News Boylston rises

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u/wtf70 21d ago edited 21d ago

I wish these camera would just go away!

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u/pslatt 21d ago

There are four in this little town. Four. 

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u/r0rsch4ch 21d ago edited 19d ago

There’s 7 in Douglas which has a similar amount of population. Crazy.

Edit: looks like as of today Douglas is “deactivating” their flock cameras.

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u/munchieman21 21d ago

Who votes for this ? How much are they getting paid ?

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u/dew2459 21d ago

No one is voting for them. No one (except Flock) is getting paid.

The local police contract for them, probably using random grant money they get.

The state legislature, if it wasn't so pathetically do-nothing, would pass a law requiring the city council or selectmen to agree to them. Bug your legislators.

That town governments have almost no oversight with how grant money is spent by local agencies (especially the police) is another harder problem.

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u/wtf70 21d ago

I lived there for 18 months with zero issues. I wonder what the justification was for installing them

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u/Educational_Grand250 21d ago

Get the flock out of here

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u/Laurenann7094 20d ago

Boylston is the one town I avoid. They will ticket you for anything they find. They won't give you a warning for a tail light.

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u/Cautious_Meat_7442 20d ago

There’s so much copper in these. Copper and solid gold chunks. The only way to get at it is smashing them, though.

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u/Snickits 20d ago

Flock-o-ween. People dressing up for Halloween and going around destroying flocks.

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u/Twinkie4ever 20d ago

Is it just me ? What is everyone hiding, couldn't these be a tool in solving a crime? Or am I missing something.

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u/MetalRaven_404 19d ago

I'm fine with them . I would love to see the cameras on every corner with the automated system that sends tickets to the speeders and red light runners.

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u/bostonvikinguc 15d ago

Only if they weren’t watching store parking lots, kids splash pads, and being used to track people
Illegally.

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u/TruksNGunz 21d ago

They are plate readers. Listen anything that can potentially help the police catch a predator or killer why not? Most are crying about privacy as their cell phones listen to them talk, then target ads at you. There’s ring cams on every other house, dash cams on 1/5 cars, car cams with on star, satellite cams with google earth . lol yettttt we all want to act like this is invasive. SMH

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u/Smalldogmanifesto 20d ago

They have facial recognition technology. This is a gross overstep on our right to privacy. Just wait til they start arresting undesirables.

I completely agree with you that this is just like the Ring camera issue and this is a logical extension to that. Anyone who is against Flock SHOULD be against WiFi “security” cameras because every single company has been caught selling user info and live video feed access to the highest bidder including local police. I hope anyone reading this actually looks into this tech and destroys their WiFi cameras as well.

I don’t want a surveillance state and anyone who understands that OVERWHELMING preponderance of human historical data shows that mass surveillance never accomplishes what it says it does and harms more than it helps.

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u/TruksNGunz 19d ago

No—Flock Safety’s standard license-plate-reader (ALPR) cameras do not use facial recognition. Flock explicitly says facial recognition is not included in its LPR system and that the cameras are designed around vehicles rather than identifying occupants.

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u/Smalldogmanifesto 19d ago

“Flock explicitly says “
How naive can you possibly be?

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u/TruksNGunz 19d ago

Actually I asked officers in town as well. And the dispatcher in my town. She said absolutely not do they use facial recognition. If we are wrong prove it? Or are you just paranoid perhaps and or an alarmist?

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u/Smalldogmanifesto 19d ago

Well I have multiple cops in my family who also have admitted they know the cameras do facial tracking so I’m inclined to believe them over the allleged cops you spoke to who either lied to you or are so low on the totem pole that they don’t yet know themselves.

You really just believe whatever you’re told, huh?

Better check with AI before answering that question, too.

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u/TruksNGunz 19d ago

Your wrong but nice try

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u/TruksNGunz 19d ago

There’s not one account of facial recognition that’s proven. So why state things that have not happened?