" Flock Cameras " the good and the bad.

Story out of Houston and nobody seems to know who put the cameras up. Kinda crazy

PSA

https://x.com/YourAnonNews/status/2074907891610362272?s=20

Just another metadata collection device.

“Don’t worry. They’re not after you. What do you have to hide?” 🤣

Time to look into (and maybe even test) those plastic license plate covers that prevent camera shots of your plate. 🤔

Quick examples from initial search (kinda pricey; but, cheaper than a ticket!): 

https://camerastopper.com/

https://phantomplate.com/

Tennessee troopers, and local Leo's have a hard on for any kind of license plate covers.

Even frames that overlap the edges by what they consider too much.

They've also recently started harrassment of lifted vehicles for minimum headlight requirements, and fat tyres without proper mud flaps.

Tires slinging shit are something I kinda like getting enforced…witness the Diesel Bros Affect…?🤣

Currently, my “Basic Bronco” is barely legal. I really need to put some “Heritage” flares on it versus the std “narrow” ones it has. My bad. 

License plate covers are illegal in Washington but I don't know if it is being enforced. 

Once upon a time it was enforced along with lifted vehicles that the mud flap does not come down to level of the center of the wheel. too dark of window tint and pulling people over or not wearing seat belts, lowered vehicles being too low, blue dots in tail lights etc.

It seems like now those infractions are given a ticket as sort of an add-on to speeding etc.

Anyways, I think the surveillance state will be used by insurance more then anything to jack our rates up. Also, I am curious what the new shut off device that is being built into cars next year means. I've heard the car can run a scan on you to determine not only are you drunk but other health factors. That's disturbing.

https://x.com/DanielGilr44222/status/2075311311236288881?s=20

"Florida, is rolling out AI-powered cameras on its garbage trucks to scan properties for code violations, unpermitted renovations, & other issues. After installing FLOCK cameras on poles, the city is now adding mobile surveillance from trash trucks to monitor homes and yards."

Well shit, upon further rabbit hole research, it seems Dallas has already done this

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/ai-enabled-cameras-trash-trucks-dalla…

Criminals look for routes without cameras. When my work van was recovered after being stolen, it was obvious by the location they were going through neighborhoods to avoid cameras at main intersections. 

I looked you up and,  Chicago is a major drop point for drugs coming across the southern border. It makes sense to take the roads less traveled from a mule’s standpoint. 
The vehicles passing those cameras will be filed away and, probably used in future cases. Especially, if they’re able to identify/flag the driver using AI. 

I don't know about you guys, but I drive around wearing a pair of these nowadays...

I figured this was their reasoning. But, I'm not exactly a hot spot of high crime. lol. Then again, I don't have local intel. 

The car will decide if you are sleepy, drunk, distracted, angry or otherwise "unable" to operate the vehicle and will shut it off. Law enforcement (and any other person who can hack) will be able to remotely shut off your car. 

This is complete BS. The amount of crime they can stop using this tech pales in comparison to the potential for abuse. I, for one, am insulted by the insinuation that I must be monitored to stop me from driving drunk. I don't even drink! I certainly wouldn't drive afterward on the rare occasions when I do. 

We had a guy in a BMW hit a curb.  Car called 911 and the guy got arrested for DUI.

🤣

He hadn’t taken the Paul Pelosi “How To Get Away With It” Seminar! (Just recently got popped for Hit & Run…again).

The car narced on him? Fuck me running.

What's next? Is the car going to tell my wife I have a girl on the side?

I've sort of been surprised that there hasn't been something designed that would show police if a seat is occupied but the seatbelt isn't being used.  Basically just a light of some sort that is connected to the sensors that make the chime go off if a passenger isn't belted.  Not that I want it, but just surprised that it hasn't been 'mandated' in some areas.  

Here’s the Real Man revised version…

We had a guy in a BMW hit a curb.  Car called and ordered the guy a new 911. A true sports car. 

Tires flinging dirt are one thing, but the number of people driving around with unsecured loads here has reached a nuisance level. Gravel trucks, mattresses on top of sedans, kiddie tricycles bouncing out of truck beds—people are just strewing shit all over the interstate with impunity. At best you’re getting a chipped windshield and at worst you’re in a pileup. Cops don’t do shit about it. 

You just told on yourself

https://youtu.be/TOfK-w6mSnw?si=USnisSueCBrXlffg

He lays it out quite well.

Definitely pushing the limits, while staying just inside what's constitutional. 

Much like DUI checkpoints.

They serve a purpose but...

(Like the example I talked about previously, though being called a liar by our exalted knowitall)

Read a story recently about someone (in N.Carolina I think) was popped for cutting down cameras. And literally hundreds of people have come out saying the guy was with them at the time. Creating countless alibis. 

Around here there's a small, but growing, group of politicians coming out against them.

I recently read they intend to have lidar or some shit to tell more info about passengers. Yesterday I saw the Qualcomm ceo or someone saying 6g wifi will be able to map everything. None of this shit will make any of us any safer. I read about flock cameras being used to monitor a guy traveling from Wisconsin to Michigan and happened to be buying weed. They popped him on the way home even though they could not smell nor see evidence of pot. Apparently they claimed he already had an outstanding warrant. The initial story I read left out that detail. Another flock story claimed hat Texas officials accessed 86,000 cameras to track down a woman that traveled to get an abortion. Plenty of stories of police using them to be total creeps. Another says that Flock employees and even a vice president of the company access a city's police camera network to view live and recorded video feeds of children inside a community center's gymnastics room and preschool daycare area during sales demonstations. SEE! It's only for making us morer saferer. I am so thankful our government has my best interests in mind.

Latest thing I've noticed is I've gotten ads on the internet for things I've purchased in stores that I've never spoken about or looked up anywhere but used a card to pay for. So I guess credit card companies are in on the data sharing as well. 

Card purchasing pioneered data mining

Some of you guys sound like you don't trust your government or that there's some sort of "deep state"...

And Scalia wrote...because, after over 200 years we apparently forgot that...

Whenever the government intrudes upon a Constitutionally protected person, house, paper or effect to obtain information, it constitutes a 4th Amendment search.

In today's AZ local news----

"Chandler has become the largest city in Arizona to discontinue its Flock automated license plate reader contract.

A news release from Aug. 7 said a routine audit of the Flock data identified an "anomaly in the use of the Flock system that could not be explained through standard police action."

"Our initial review makes it clear that no Chandler resident, or any member of the public, had their privacy compromised," the statement continued.

The move follows a tumultuous and long City Council meeting in May during which the Council discussed the renewal of a $153,000 contract with Flock Safety, a company that provides ALPR cameras for police use. The Council ultimately decided to delay voting on the renewal until Aug. 13."

Pinal County (south of Phoenix area) also recently cancelled the Flock contract.

So some municipalities are waking up to the reality of the issues that come with blanket surveillance of your citizens. 

https://deflock.org