Below are posts associated with the “Flock” tag.

🔗 linkblog: Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags


Do Lexington next! Also, Flock’s statement is so gross.

🔗 linkblog: ‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access


If edtech doesn’t include this horrifying monstrosity, the field isn’t being broad enough in its inquiry.

🔗 linkblog: The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers


Absolutely terrifying.

🔗 linkblog: With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet


Ring sucks and is creepy. Here’s the killer paragraph from this story;

Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir or some other high-profile surveillance companies, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism.

🔗 linkblog: Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock


Surveillance sucks.


Today, on the last day of class, a student shared some of their ongoing efforts to mess with local Flock cameras and develop makeup patterns to defeat facial recognition. It was like realizing I’d had a Cory Doctorow character in class all semester, and it brought me joy and hope.

🔗 linkblog: Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI


Flock continues to suck.

🔗 linkblog: Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime


Wish I’d made more of a stink about Lexington adopting Flock cameras. It’s a creepy-as-hell technology, and we need to get rid of them.

🔗 linkblog: Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month


Did not realize that dashcam surveillance was a thing. I hate that it is, and I hate that Flock is going here.

🔗 linkblog: A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion


So scary, so gross. Lexington needs to ditch Flock now.

🔗 linkblog: ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows


Flock sucks, and I’m so mad that Lexington drank the Kool-Aid instead of resisting local surveillance. Just wrote my city council representative, the vice mayor, and the two at-large representatives.

🔗 linkblog: License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows


Wish I’d done more to resist Flock adoption in Lexington.

🔗 linkblog: ALPR Maker Flock Broke Laws Repeatedly While Installing Cameras, Courting Cop Shops'


Flock provides the ALPRs here in Lexington, which makes this especially frustrating.