Edward Snowden said it the best:
"When you say 'I don't care about the right to privacy because I have nothing to hide,' that's no different than saying 'I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say.'"
"Simply because you are following the law, doesn't mean that you'll be exempt from governmental interference in your private life."
Police pull over to arrest Florida man—for blocking Flock camera on public sidewalk.
He sat holding a 12-foot pool skimmer with sign taped on top.
Today all camera saw was sign:
"Down With Flock Cameras."
A witness offered to help:
"What's your name? I'll come bail you out!"
Carl Gunn, age 77, told a local reporter that 2 police cruisers had already stopped by to interrogate him for at least 15 minutes.
"I have a constitutional right to my privacy," he said.
"I’m a law-abiding citizen, and I don’t need anyone sticking their nose in my business... And if they do, I’m going to chop it off."
Flock cameras create an interconnected network that logs the movements of nearly every vehicle—without warrants.
Enabling broad surveillance that can be shared across agencies and used far beyond solving specific crimes.
Incident occurred in the Coquina Key neighborhood of St. Pete, Florida.
He doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
🚨 Think Flock cams are invasive?
Meet Flock Alpha.
-Thermal vision
-Self launches
-Self-recharges
-Flies up to 60 mph
-Live streams to police
-Reads license plates from 2k ft away
-Integrated with Flock's ALPR network
Not just a drone.
Surveillance infrastructure that flies.
🚨 Security researcher Ben Jordan reveals that Flock cameras are secretly creating a GPS tracker for every car in America, and it’s already live
This is extremely concerning
“Flock license plate readers take a timestamped photo of every vehicle that passes every camera. Police can search your historical travel information for 30 days. This creates a searchable database of everyone, not just the suspects of crime — It's like if you were to build a graph of that sheet and plot it to a map, now it's as if you've had a GPS on your car for an entire month”
“In order for that historical data to be of investigative value, you have to track every car”
Flocks own training videos say they aren’t just tracking license plates, they’re tracking people
“But Flock's own webinars talk about its license plate reader's ability to track vehicles and people”
Directly from the investigation:
But the company’s own training videos show police using the system to track suspects “from location to location to location.”
And some of its cameras are designed to follow people as they walk.
“And they quite literally use AI to zoom in and follow you around whether you’re a person of interest or not,”
We need to ban Flock nationwide, this is the surveillance state being established
Another dirty cop caught illegally misusing Flock cameras / AI tracking software to stalk a woman.
Pasadena (Houston), Texas police sergeant Michael Palitz has resigned due to an ongoing investigation of his criminal activity. No charges have been filed as cops seem to be immune from prosecution related to systems like this. Every time this cop illegally searched the system he was committing a felony under federal law, 18 U.S.C. § 242. Based on this reporting; he committed MULTIPLE felonies and should be criminally tried for doing so.
Again, these incidents aren't new but they're showing up daily/multiple times per day now because people are finally starting to look into these systems that violate all of our Constitutional rights every single day as long as they exist.
Keep requesting public records of these systems and report these crimes accordingly... 🦅
#CityLife #cops #crime #houston #flock #ALPR #leonardo #AXON #police #texas #4thAmendment #14thAmendment #PoliceState #CivilRights
SCOTUS: Carpenter vs United States (2018): "Individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the comprehensive record of their physical movements."
Flock cameras are in direct violation of the 4th Amendment.
Cameras in the middle of nowhere are not about safety, it is 100% about control and the sale of our existence for the benefit of corporations. #Flock#Deflock#Privacy
Flock cameras have been out up in the Richland Wildlife Management Area in Florida
The location of the flock cameras are in “miles and miles of Florida wilderness with no neighborhoods or shopping centers, subdivisions or traffic lights around — Why are there surveillance cameras here? Why are there license plate readers sitting at the crossroads of a wildlife management area?
Who are they watching? The hunters? People exercising their Second Amendment rights? Families going camping? Fishermen headed to a boat ramp? Because it isn't just here”
“But here's the question that no one seems willing to ask: How much surveillance are we willing to accept? For decades, law enforcement investigated crimes without building massive networks of cameras that record the movements of millions of law-abiding Americans”
I have ferried these cameras are indeed there, and there is literally nothing around the area
They were installed by the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office which has also deployed dozens of Flock cameras across the county. From what I can find, over 40 installed on county roads
Law enforcement says there are here for
- Recovering stolen vehicles
- Tracking suspects
- Solving crimes in these rural areas
- General public safety
They look like unnecessary surveillance. There is literally nothing around here
I have included a video that shows just how far these cameras really are from society, it’s shocking