To everyone who follows the @dustingoldshow on @thomas1774paine TV, I’m sorry I haven’t put out shows for a couple of days, but my beautiful wife was in labor for three straight days. She is a warrior. Please help us welcome William into this crazy world!
@tractor_owner I lived right near there and did a report on it on @Thomas1774Paine at the time. Had a witness who worked down in that area cleaning up the aftermath. Was very interesting.
@accountabletome He loves them. Plus my wife is Polish and her family still lives in Poland - so this is her state-side Polish family. We got them for her for Mother’s Day to add to our flock of 25 other chickens.
While the flock cameras are real, they are also a red herring which is why they are trending. You’ve been carrying your tracker device in your pocket (and paying for it) for nearly 20 years. The forbidden fruit.
True, but they can already track you on your phone directly, open your mic or camera anytime they want, and every key stroke you make it being recorded.
All this other tech is real, but also a red herring. We gave them everything when we adopted the smart phone.
New mass surveillance technology is being deployed in America, it will track Americans via Bluetooth connection from their devices
If “you thought Flock was bad, something even more terrifying is being installed all over America. It's made by a defense contractor called Leonardo, and here's what it does”
So the biggest problem with these LPRs, license plate readers like Flock, is that it needs to use a license plate to identify you
This company has found a way around that
They've made a device that can be installed next to any existing license plate reader that once it's installed, that next time they pull your license plate, it will pull all the unique Bluetooth identifiers from all the smart devices in your car.
But it doesn’t stop there, it gets worse
Once they have those devices, they link them to you via your license plate, and now they never need to scan your license plate again.
These new sensors can be installed anywhere, and they can even see who's traveling with you
It’s made by Leonardo DRS, they are a defense and technology company that works with U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies
These devices are reportedly being deployed or tested in various US cities alongside existing LPR networks
It’s called SignalTrace and it can be easily added onto any existing camera of their or Flock
It’s described as “An advanced intelligence system that upgrades standard license plate readers to track people by their smart devices they carry, rather than just by their vehicles
This is insane and should be federally banned. This is the surveillance state
🚨 THE CEO OF FLOCK JUST SAID THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD — AND PEOPLE ARE LOSING IT
Remember when Flock cameras were only supposed to read license plates?
Apparently that's not enough anymore.
Now we're talking about AI that can find a vehicle from a simple description.
Microphones that are always listening for so called "sounds of distress."
Drones that can be launched automatically after a 911 call.
And camera networks that can follow movement across entire cities.
Every year the cameras get smarter.
The databases get bigger.
The AI gets more powerful.
And the amount of information being collected keeps growing.
Then came the comment that really got people's attention.
The CEO behind Flock, one of the largest camera networks in America reportedly compared people who map camera locations to terrorists.
Think about that for a second.
The cameras aren't the problem.
The people tracking the cameras are.
Some people see a tool that makes communities safer.
Others see a system that knows where you've been, where you are, and eventually where you're likely to go next.
If mapping Flock cameras makes you a "terrorist," what does that make the people putting cameras everywhere?