Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't.
In Texas, a rare bipartisan consensus has formed against Flock Safety's license plate readers, which are deployed across the U.S. with 120,000 cameras and contracts with 40% of police departments. Residents use the DeFlock app to map and protest these surveillance devices, which capture the movements of ordinary drivers.
“And what is my way of pushing back? Education. Data,” Philip said. “Am I just being paranoid? No, they’re actually everywhere.”
- rsalus
Regardless of the benefits (of which there are a few, despite what fellow detractors may say), I am completely unwilling to submit myself to mass surveillance. Once that kind of power is obtained by the state, it will be abused. The article already cites several instances of this, including a police officer using it to stalk someone. And let alone the malicious usage, what if there are simply errors in the software or mistakes made by human operators? I don't trust police departments and public officials to implement this capability competently.
- Morromist
Its commonly said by people who seem to love this tech that we don't get to have a right to privacy in public spaces (anywhere but shut inside our houses with the window blinds drawn) but it appears now we also don't have a right not to be surveilled intensely, our every movement recorded, tracked and noted down permanantly, analysed with Algorithms & scrutenized for potential crimes.
Land of freedom they say.
- betaby
There is no benefit of tracking for citizens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUNZZWq1dXM
- pseudolus
- glenda
Interestingly "Police love them, citizens don't" also applies to police themselves