Doorbell cameras by Amaz0n Ring are being illegally shared w/ Flock surveillance software.
1) Turn Off & 2) Cover your Ring cameras this Halloween.
ICE wants to deport families trick-or-treating, & is stealing biometric data from you, to do so.
#do #not #comply in #advance #protest #fight #fascist #USA #crush #ICE #melts #under #pressure #Halloween #surveillance #Flock #welcome #dystopian #present #eat the #rich #Tax #Bezos #end #billionaires #new #privacy #data #laws https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-10-29-safety-advisory-no-ring-for-ice-this-halloween

Doorbell cameras by Amaz0n Ring are being illegally shared w/ Flock surveillance software.
1) Turn Off & 2) Cover your Ring cameras this Halloween.
ICE wants to deport families trick-or-treating, & is stealing biometric data from you, to do so.
#do #not #comply in #advance #protest #fight #fascist #USA #crush #ICE #melts #under #pressure #Halloween #surveillance #Flock #welcome #dystopian #present #eat the #rich #Tax #Bezos #end #billionaires #new #privacy #data #laws https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-10-29-safety-advisory-no-ring-for-ice-this-halloween

If you're not careful, the Secret Service will soon be on your porch. "On the same day that #Ring announced this partnership, 404 Media reported that ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy had access to Flock’s network of cameras. By partnering with Ring, #Flock could potentially access footage from millions more cameras." https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

Flock is the most late-stage American capitalism spin on 1984. It’s not the government who puts up cameras to keep an eye on the public; it’s a for-profit company who charges the gov't for their services, and works with other massive for-profit companies to convince people to put up their own cameras to spy on themselves and their neighbors.

Every time I tell someone about Flock, I feel like a conspiracy theorist except it’s true, and they’re not hiding it.

https://www.404media.co/tag/flock/

#flock

When I looked into IP cameras a few years back, seeing that merely a few chip vendors are involved and tons of whitelabeling businesses exist, at some point I read about " #racial detection" and such.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/china-found-using-surveillance-firms-to-help-write-ethnic-tracking-specs-idUSKBN2BM1ED/
Do not be surprised to see this from #Flock now.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US11030892
The whole #surveillance tech suite has been in development for more than two decades.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7504965B1
Check for prior art and related/referencing patents for more details:
https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/US-7504965-B1

When I looked into IP cameras a few years back, seeing that merely a few chip vendors are involved and tons of whitelabeling businesses exist, at some point I read about " #racial detection" and such.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/china-found-using-surveillance-firms-to-help-write-ethnic-tracking-specs-idUSKBN2BM1ED/
Do not be surprised to see this from #Flock now.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US11030892
The whole #surveillance tech suite has been in development for more than two decades.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7504965B1
Check for prior art and related/referencing patents for more details:
https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/US-7504965-B1

@scottsthoughts

There's a Google Doc action item about the Cambridge, MA Flock cameras here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kHjk18XtkPzUjyc6GfkJlSk9qW7WHQW7y57BXoPKT5c/edit?usp=sharing

#CambridgeMA #MAPoli #MAPol #privacy #Flock

😬

"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

"How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department’s Use of Flock’s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers"

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-to-pump-the-brakes-on-your-police-departments-use-of-flocks-mass-surveillance-license-plate-readers

"Unlike a targeted ALPR camera system that is designed to take pictures of license plates, check the plates against local hot lists, and then flush the data if there’s no hit, Flock is building a giant camera network that records people’s comings and goings across the nation, and then makes that data available for search by any of its law enforcement customers. Such a system provides even small-town sheriffs access to a sweeping and powerful mass-surveillance tool, and allows big actors like federal agencies and large urban police departments to access the comings and goings of vehicles in even the smallest of towns. And every new customer that buys and installs the company’s cameras extends Flock’s network, contributing to the creation of a centralized mass surveillance system of Orwellian scope. Motorola Solutions, a competitor to #Flock, is pursuing a similar business model."

#wyden #senwyden

"The company’s cameras are no longer just recording our comings and goings — now, using AI in ways we have long warned against, the system is actively evaluating each of us to make a decision about whether we should be reported to law enforcement as potential participants in organized crime."

"All these are variants on the same theme: using the camera network not just to investigate based on suspicion, but to generate suspicion itself."

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

#fuckflock #flock

"Get the #Flock out of #Eugene"
"#Surveillance doesn't equal safety"

https://eyesoffeugene.org/

Petition Eugene city council:
https://www.change.org/p/fight-police-surveillance-tell-eugene-city-council-to-cancel-their-alpr-contract

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

Et la série hebdomadaire de #Flock est encore super : Invasion, exploitation, liquéfaction
https://next.ink/177975/flock-invasion-exploitation-liquefaction/