This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this
California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America
“I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I've designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read their patents and I know how it works.
Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story.
They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn't add up
The city council should also understand who they're doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie.
Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.
Now consider who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure.
Palantir's own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into.
We're not anti-police at all. We're against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We're asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock's database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract”
I looked more into this and he is 100% right
Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries
Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75%+ of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers.
This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure
If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to. Cancel all contracts nationwide
@WillyWonka325@SoybeanTrader88 If I remember right, the markets were very headline, and “Trump tweet” driven in his first term. Typically what he said would happen eventually did. More times than not. Seems to be running the same course Fundamentals are out the window
@GGunthorp@WindsorSe7en@BradyD78 My point was that the renewable fuels keeps the prices at a level to incentivize planting any crops at all. If corn was just being fed to animals how cheap would it be with what we can raise now a days. It’s just a theory
@GGunthorp@WindsorSe7en@BradyD78 One could make the argument that renewable fuel subsidies are merely a vehicle to keep enough incentive in the grain markets to produce enough cheap feedstocks for meat based protein supply’s. All while lowering energy costs and dependence on foreign energy. Just a thought
@PetersenFarms It’s been available in other states i.e. Nebraska for years. If it was so troublesome to the vehicles we would have heard about that by now. So much bad information out there. We have such an over supply of corn. (USDA) that the effect on food cost is non existent
@gwiesefarms A unicorn within 10 miles? The chances of that are extremely small. It’s a great thought but not applicable to a majority of the farming community
@usuallystuck70 If we don’t need to get rid of corn because prices are fair, then we take a dividend on the returns. If they fall too far we start dumping. The government could do the same and it would save a ton of tax dollars vs subsidy. Lobbyists don’t like that idea though
Food for thought…..
Farmers form their own private
“check off”or “tax”. If we all paid $20/acre of corn, bought 4-500mil bushels of corn from those 97mil acres and we just dump that shit in the ocean…..problem solved. Or create a set-aside. That way these big corps loose2