#flock-safety — Public Fediverse posts
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To The Surprise Of No One, Cops Are Using ALPR Cameras To Stalk Their Exes
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Flock’s Sales Pitch Included Recordings Of Kids’ Gymnastic Classes
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Does anyone have any links to good rad #zines to print and share?
I’d love zines presenting left/anarchist/anti colonial perspectives on:
- the #Iran war
- genocide in #Gaza #WestBank and #Palestine
- #MutualAid #FoodNotBombs
- #BigTech #AI #Surveillance #FlockSafety
- #MeshTech
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"Colorado Grandma Keeps Getting Pulled Over Because Police Cameras Cannot Tell the Difference Between a Zero and the Letter O
Olivia RichmanA 76-year-old woman in Colorado did not expect her golden years to involve repeated run-ins with law enforcement. Yet here she is, getting pulled over again and again, not for speeding, not for running red lights, but because of a one-character error tied to a police database. That tiny typo has turned her ordinary drives into recurring traffic stops, and she has no easy way to stop it.
If this sounds familiar, it should. We covered a nearly identical case in Cherry Hills that has been making the rounds, where a Colorado driver was repeatedly pulled over after Flock Safety alerts flagged his vehicle incorrectly.
The culprit is a system from Flock Safety, which uses automated license plate readers to alert officers when a vehicle of interest is spotted in the area. It is designed to catch stolen cars and flag plates associated with criminal activity. In her case, it has flagged her vehicle as having stolen plates, which is incorrect. Every time she drives through certain areas of Colorado, the cameras pick up her plate, run it against the database, and send officers out to pull her over.
The mistake is not hers. A suspect’s license plate was entered incorrectly—mixing up a zero and the letter O—and her completely valid plate now matches that bad entry in the system. To be clear, her plate is correct. The error exists in the database. The camera reads her plate correctly, matches it to the incorrect entry, and flags her as a suspect every single time
(. . .)
Flock Safety is a private company that provides automated license plate reader technology to police departments across the country. The cameras are typically mounted in fixed locations, and they capture images of passing vehicles and their plates. When a plate matches one flagged in a database, an alert is sent to law enforcement in real time.
The system is widely used because it allows departments to extend their reach without putting more officers on the street. One camera can theoretically monitor thousands of vehicles per day. For legitimate cases involving stolen cars or vehicles connected to serious crimes, the technology can be a useful tool. The problem arises when the underlying database contains errors, because the camera does not know the difference between a typo and the truth.
It simply reads the plate, checks the list, and sends the alert.
(. . .)
What makes this story particularly troubling is that it is not a one-off glitch. After the Cherry Hills story aired, multiple Colorado drivers reached out to say the same thing was happening to them. All of them had been wrongly entered into a police database. None of them had been given a clear process for getting removed.
That is a significant problem. If these errors are widespread enough that a single news segment prompted multiple people to come forward, the question becomes how many people are silently dealing with the same issue without knowing they have any options at all. The common thread is not the drivers—it is the database. Each case traces back to incorrect plate entries that the system continues to treat as valid."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/colorado-grandma-keeps-getting-pulled-172923771.html
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📬 Flock Safety: 80.000 Kameras – das geheime Überwachungsnetz der US-Polizei
#Datenschutz #ITSicherheit #ALPR #Bewegungsprofile #FlockSafety #ITSicherheit #Kennzeichenerfassung #Massenüberwachung #Polizeiüberwachung #Protestüberwachung #Überwachung #usa https://sc.tarnkappe.info/96a2ac -
So I will tell everybody that follows me and everybody else in the general space that if you want to talk about #flocksafety, and what flock safety is a company does and who funded it, and what the technology actually does and why it’s data is being used to violate basic human rights, I’m one of a few former flock safety employees that you can talk to to get that understanding
#trans #queer #lgbtia #policestate #surveillance #orwell #1984 #dystopia #thiel #palantir
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@rmblaber1956 I’m
A former #flocksafety employee here in the US , it’s already happening , and #thiel was an angel investor into flock safety to start with. Flocks product are cameras that track LPR ( license plates ). -
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“People keep approaching me about #Flocksafety. I will talk openly about my time as a developer / engineer there. But its the kind of thing that will probably unsettle you. Just be aware.
#Flock #Surveillance #lp...”
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🚨✨ Welcome to the #dystopia where your car's bumper stickers are the new FBI informants. Forget Big Brother; it's time to fear the Big Algorithm 🤖📊. Flock Safety's cameras are spreading like a rash, but hey, at least they know what color car to track when you roll through the drive-thru 🍔🚗.
https://stopflock.com #BigAlgorithm #surveillance #tech #FlockSafety #privacyconcerns #HackerNews #ngated -
#FlockSafety. Flock as in a flock of sheep? Hearding a flock of sheep? So the citizens are "flock" that is to be hearded by their masters?
Who thought it was a good idea to name their survailance company like that?
And what's up with americans (local governments who have contracts with Flock Safety) for not noticing? -
US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology
#HackerNews #USCities #FlockSafety #SurveillanceTech #PrivacyConcerns #TechPolicy
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ALPR Tech Now Preventing Parents From Enrolling Their Kids In School
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Pembroke Pines, FL quietly built a surveillance machine over 10 years. $1.3 million. 160+ cameras. Facial recognition. FBI database access. Audio capture. A nationwide plate database with 4 billion+ reads. The City Commission voted on it 13 times. Never once debated it. Every claim here is from public records. 🧵#SurveillanceState #ALPR #PembrokePines #Broward #FlockSafety #FacialRecognition #PublicRecords #Florida
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A redesign before we even have followers? Bold strategy.
The site looks much better now. More importantly, it's easier to actually read what's going on with license plate surveillance in Broward: what's installed, what it collects, and what nobody officially wants to talk about.
#ALPR #Privacy #CivilLiberties #Surveillance #PublicRecords #Florida #Broward #FlockSafety #infosec
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LYNNWOOD—The Lynnwood City Council voted unanimously on Monday, February 22, to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, scrapping a controversial network of automated license plate recognition cameras that had drawn months of fierce community backlash over privacy invasions and potential misuse for immigration enforcement. The Council’s decision was a swift reversal for a program once hailed as a crime-fighting tool but ultimately undone by eroded public trust and lapses in data security.
#Lynnwood #Washington #FlockSafety #Privacy #PublicTrust #ICENews #ICE
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Hello Mastodon! Deflock Broward here. We use public records to track license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance, then publish sources + plain-English explainers.
Starting with Weston: https://deflockbroward.org/weston
#DeflockBroward #Deflock #WestonFL #Broward #SouthFlorida #Florida #PublicRecords #SunshineLaw #OpenGovernment #Privacy #Surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReaders #FlockSafety
