@evacide Larkspur in Marin County, California, already had ALPR at its boundary for the same purpose in October 2015, long before Flock was founded. The city police would be alerted if a car from outside hadn't left by sunset, the implicit assumption being they would be burglars, not tourists.

The only difference is that Flock networks and aggregates this beyond the reach of a single city.

@evacide I imagine Flock-buying local authorities would justify this biased distribution of cameras by pointing to crime statistics, per usual.

Systems intended to enforce separateness will continue to enforce separateness.

@evacide neat project, I am fascinated by the map links...

wrt the comment you quote, when deflock first came to my attention, my partner and I of course looked around the Bay Area for where these were, and we were both pretty disgusted with the placement, at the boundaries of the rich people places, and all over Oakland. so pretty much what the artist said.

@evacide what a peach of a project

@evacide Exposes who they think they can't prey on. People with expensive lawyers or political allies.

@evacide very cool, reminds me a bit of Evan Roth's internet landscapes infrared photos. http://www.evan-roth.com/~/frames/ccc-internet-landscapes/#hemisphere=east&strand=137

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The fact that the cost will .3 flock cameras at a children’s playground and then with some kids break a swing, and the children are charged with vandalism, and these kids surprisingly are white and not black. You know what this is about it’s a authoritarian indoctrination and terror.