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"Flock Safety, whose drones were once reserved for police departments, is now offering them for private-sector security, the company announced today, with potential customers including including businesses intent on curbing shoplifting.Companies in the US can now place Flock's drone docking stations on their premises. If the company has a waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly beyond visual line of sight (these are becoming easier to get), its security team can fly the drones within a certain radius, often a few miles. "

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/25/2231203/shoplifters-could-soon-be-chased-down-by-drones

#privacy #alpr #flock #drones

“Pausing” operations means that they HAVE BEEN ALLOWING IT until now.

Flock makes money per query. They are incentivized to allow “law enforcement” types to query their systems for as many things as they want, including tracking people down for violating anti-abortion laws, suspected “immigration” issues, and who knows what else.

Your tax dollars are paying for this. Flock cameras should be taken down.

#surveillance #kakistocracy #enshittification#FlockCameras#ALPR

“License plate camera company halts cooperation with federal agencies among investigation concerns”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/license-plate-camera-company-halts-225436172.html

“Pausing” operations means that they HAVE BEEN ALLOWING IT until now.

Flock makes money per query. They are incentivized to allow “law enforcement” types to query their systems for as many things as they want, including tracking people down for violating anti-abortion laws, suspected “immigration” issues, and who knows what else.

Your tax dollars are paying for this. Flock cameras should be taken down.

#surveillance #kakistocracy #enshittification#FlockCameras#ALPR

“License plate camera company halts cooperation with federal agencies among investigation concerns”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/license-plate-camera-company-halts-225436172.html

OH WOW WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS (everyone)

#ai #surveillance #flock#ALPR

“Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious””

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

OH WOW WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS (everyone)

#ai #surveillance #flock#ALPR

“Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious””

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

Wheee -- this is just going to work out splendidly with the whole fascism thing. /s

404 Media: Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops

https://www.404media.co/home-depot-and-lowes-share-data-from-hundreds-of-ai-cameras-with-cops/

#alpr #privacy #homedepot #lowes

Wheee -- this is just going to work out splendidly with the whole fascism thing. /s

404 Media: Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops

https://www.404media.co/home-depot-and-lowes-share-data-from-hundreds-of-ai-cameras-with-cops/

#alpr #privacy #homedepot #lowes

DeFlock is a map that identifies the location of ANPR/ALPR cameras and the area under surveillance.

ANPR/ALPR: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recognition

Anyone can update the map with camera locations.

The map is based on OpenStreetMap but the data is not visualized on OpenStreetMap.org.

Website: https://deflock.me

OpenStreetMap is a Google Maps alternative.

Website: https://www.openstreetmap.org
Mastodon: @openstreetmap

#DeFlock#ANPR#ALPR#OpenStreetMap#Surveillance#Privacy #OSM#CyberSecurity#InfoSec