Flock makes a point of saying that their system can't track individuals. Wired continues to do the Lord's work, taking Flock software apart and demonstrating its new AI tool comes preloaded with prompts like "find me witness" and "find relatives."
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@evacide Flock is toast. Trump backs them so that's the kiss of death. He'll cash out and leave them to die.
Next MAGA technofash company to keep an eye on is Axon. They'll immediately take Flock's place in the domestic surveillance game and SCOTUS takes money from them.
@evacide [Garrett Langley, Flock chief executive]
“At a demonstration for police chiefs in Denver last year, Langley described the ability to search every camera in a city for cars tailing an armored truck, pulling up the registered owners of those vehicles and checking their arrest records, in under a minute.
**Investigators who try it, he said, get “addicted.”**
When the fossil fuel industry funds dictatorships & technofascist corporations; this is the outcome.
Andreessen & Larry Ellison & their close ties to petrostate despots...
https://www.techspot.com/news/113395-flock-biggest-investor-also-backs-company-can-rewrite.html
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/09/the-venture-firm-that-ate-silicon-valley/
https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-google-slammed-for-siding-with-saudi-government-app-2019-3
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/21/flock_aclu_chad_marlow
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-ceo-goes-ballistic
https://www.404media.co/larry-ellisons-ai-powered-surveillance-dystopia-is-already-here/
@evacide Well it can't track "individuals", it tracks automobiles. The people who want to get a car sign away a lot of their freedom, it's always been the case.
If motorists weren't murdering more than 20 pedestrians per day in the USA, we might care.
@evacide not even a tiny little shout out to Benn Jordan? 
@evacide
you aware, cybersecurity%90 not exist and corrupt authorities are accessing all systems that are not secured by those who be better than them and manipulate the humanity?!
All brought to the press is just propaganda to make people believe that it's normal to be surveilled and manipulated whole day.
Whereever you go, you are manipulated.
If it's on your phones or computers, or if it's on a cashier system or on a ATM.
As long you know bout their corruption you're interesting!
@evacide If it can't track individuals, what's the point of it?
And how exactly are all of those cops spying and stalking individual people?
RE: https://chaos.social/@netzpolitik_feed/117111440305265690
You may have caught wind of this story .
Everything from vehicular paint jobs that look like a scrambled set of license plates to T-shirts covered in license plate numbers are now appearing as articles of clothing or decoration that defeat AI.
The effectiveness of these systems is open to question, but I love the idea that a colorful T-shirt or a pair of pants can completely defeat this stuff
It’s kind of like squirrels, defeating every effort to keep them from raiding a birdfeeder
@evacide Flocking and Fleecing the Sheeple
The thing I constantly see media gloss over... The pole-mounted cameras are NOT doing any actual work, other than capturing cropped images and sometimes video.
It's the upload to AmazonAWS and whatever system they use in EC2 that can do ALL of the analytics and associations.
I would LOVE if the cameras did ALPR directly and uploaded TEXT, but they don't. They capture all motion, and use a YOLOv3tiny model to crop object, and upload that.
So, yes, EVERYTHING gets uploaded to AWS for further processing as they see fit.
So no, system capability is NOT based on camera models at all, it's all in AWS, always has been.
@kajer I have always taken it for granted that people understood that the primary function of the cameras is to gather data for analysis. Perhaps I am wrong.
@evacide @kajer I will cash in many years of in-depth user ethnography to underpin my confident assertion that people broadly *have no idea* how these systems work, which aspect of capture/processing/analysis happens where, etc. etc.
Ask someone – just about anyone – to relay to you their folk model of how the apparatus works sometime. It’s not at all their fault for not having a more accurate schematic sense of things, but it is, uh, enlightening.
