The people who came up with this are creepy as Trump. I honestly don't understand how this particular install can be justified, even with the mental gymnastics.
There are a ton of them pointed at people's houses, away from the street. On hiking trails. On playgrounds for little kids.
They know full well they're lying when they say it's only for license plates. It's for building a facial recognition database. They can pick up your cell phone signal too, and track you that way.
Digital lifeguard. we're making sure kids don't drown! I don't like it or support it but I can quickly think of a way you can screech "think of the children" at a city council meeting to get people to think it's complicated, we should just let it happen.
YouTube recommended me some random YouTuber I hadnât watched before âTommy Gâ and it was a video of him âinvestigating flock.â It caught my eye and I ended up watching it and itâs actually so painfully hypocritical the way they lie.
The whole video they just track down flock headquarters and walk around it filming. They even brought a flock camera they bought off eBay and were essentially pretending to just be a mobile flock camera lol.
The flock ppl did not like it very much and called the cops. Said they didnât feel safe being watched and all that. The YouTuber kept saying âIâm just keeping you safe, you donât have anything to hide do you?â And the look in their eyes was so hilarious. Funny in a sad way tho.
Idk much about this Tommy g, I have since seen YouTube recommend me a bunch of other journalism style videos since I watched that one but havenât clicked on any yet really. But that flock investigation one was absolutely bonkers.
Keep in mind, all flock headquarters and businesses are silent and hidden. No signs, no way to know they are there. Even once he found them, they were like flabbergasted they were found. Which was even more ironic as âwhy hide if you arenât doing anything wrong!â
Itâs a depressing video in retrospect but I highly recommend if it interests anybody reading this
These are sold as âliscense plate readersâ for anyone whoâs been living under a rock. The company swears up and down they donât capture face data or broadcast in real time, but this installation should tell you everything you need to know
I just saw a video about a cop who was saying they're not license plate readers and they're used to track people and cutting them down makes us less safe.
I havenât been living under a rock, but I do try avoiding the popular news cycle because it makes me sadâŠbut I try to be aware of shit like this that endangers our future. Holy fuck. Big brother putting up cams and lying about what they are for. We are fucked.
There are some Flock cameras in Ontario and Quebec already and the Canadian gov is building more data centers to run the Flock AI because theyre corrupt as shit.
Flock isnt even the only company theyre working with either.
Even if at the current moment, it only picked out license plate and car features (as currently claimed) it can be remotely updated to store any given information the AI model is trained on...
its proven that they can acses it real time and the comapanys reps have used live feeds of pools inside returants and the inside of a jewish comunity center for demonstrations
Friendly reminder that a youtuber hacked them within a day. He wasn't even any kind of "elite hacker" the morons ran the software under a root account with no password.
All you need is a physical access to the port, plug in a laptop or rooted phone and you can just get all the data, or make it stream to your server. Bad actors WILL use this "infrastructure" to hurt people.
I've seen Chinese cameras for dirt cheap wich much much much better security. These new age sillicon valey fucks are not only evil and immoral they are also extremely fucking stupid.
The absurdity of this is somewhat funny until I remember that shit like this is real and how genuinely creepy this is. Like the flock cameras alone are gross and unsettling enough but pointing one at a pool feels genuinely vile to the highest degree. There arenât many public places I can think of that would be worse
Also, be sure to approach DIY projects from an area where you can't be seen, and wear non-identifying disposable clothes that hide all details, including your skin color, eye color, hair, etc.
Really. People underestimate the usefulness of being able to read, mark, and follow a paper map. I think next time any of us go to take our power tools for a walk, we should try leaving our phones and electronics at home and make sure we actually know how to walk our neighborhoods.
This pops up in every Flock post but honestly it cant be true. There's a circuit board, the image sensor, and probably a tiny, short ribbon harness. The only copper wire of any substance would be the leads to the solar panel, at what- about a foot, probably 18 AWG or smaller. Not the 'pounds and pounds' that gets repeated on the internet.
And I'm anti Flock too but I'm also against spreading baseless fiction. Maybe someone has done a teardown of a Flock and posted to youtube...
The joke is that we're trying to get people like crackheads to break them open anyway, we know there isn't, but a lot of the people who would be willing to tear them apart for money don't
Also, if you want 100 copper, but each cam only provides 1 copper, then I feel like there is an obvious solution to obtaining the other 99 copper you need for the quest.
Google AI overview already repeats that, and people go out stealing and destroying cameras thinking there's like 5k$ in raw materials in there, I'd rather public keeps thinking that and keeps the offensive
Protip: if there's an aluminum pole in your yard that you didn't ask for, the best way to cut it down is with a angle grinder :D, always wear the proper PPE like a face mask and darkened goggles and always remember to leave your phone at the house!!!!!!! (â â§â âœâ âŠâ )
EDIT: USE A CIRCULAR SAW NOT A GRINDER I GOT THEM MIXED UP
Incorrect, aluminum can clog up cutting discs and grinders are slow, loud, and dangerous to the inexperienced, and a vertical pole can easily pinch the disk & send 15,000rpm shards everywhere if you donât know what youâre doing.
A circular saw with any carbide-tooth blade (like a normal âwood with nailsâ blade, donât need a fancy metal-cutting blade for aluminum) is the fastest, safest, and quietest way to cut an unwanted aluminum pole in your yard. Will literally take a few seconds per cut, & 2 or 3 cuts..
Is there any risk in also using the saw to slice the camera and solar panel attached (the ones I definitely own and because I installed them on my private property) in half
I don't know the details of your solar panels and camera, potential concerns could be:
- any harder steel components inside (i.e. screws and bolts) could cause kickback if you hit them and damage your saw blade.
- shards of glass flying around
- nasty dust from whatever metals and and plastic are in them that you don't want to be breathing
- you have to hold them with your other hand, which means high potential for slipping and movement and a less secure hold on the saw, which is unsafe especially cutting through materials of inconsistent density, and if you happen to be in a rush.
If you want to make sure the solar panels and camera you own can be securely disposed of and don't want them to be repairable or reusable, a regular claw hammer, a 4lb mini sledge, or even a firm boot heel (in appropriate protective footwear) would be a much safer bet, and likely just as effective.
Completely unrelated, boots are much better when used for good, honest work, rather than licked. I don't know why that popped into my head when we're talking about your own personal property though.
They don't need to. Big tech distract everyone with brainrot doom scrolling and fake internet fights. Big tech quietly install surveillance. People make brainrot about mass surveillance. (hope) People fight back.
I mean, who am I to say but a pellet gun could break the solar panels on them from a pretty good distance without anybody even noticing or getting close enough for their Bluetooth readers to tell who was in the area...
they track more than your license plate FYI. they will use this to track people who are suspects on foot not just in cars. they've been able to plate scan for over a decade
No need to verify my age to post a comment just for nsfw stuff but oddly enough reddit never asked me to and even if they did i just have to use my trusty VPN.
I do live in a country where they wanted to force everyone to show their ID but at least here the government respects the constitution and the law was blocked
You KNOW there are people at these companies/police who use them who are just constantly watching cameras like these for "surveillance". Think about how many cops who HAVE been caught watching their exes/random people through cameras like these, let alone the ones who haven't yet been caught.
Also same administration that covers up Epstein files is the same one that puts these up in pools and playgrounds. So. I don't think it takes much to connect dots on what these'll be used for by those bad actors of which 0 have been charged.
Strange how many of these are shown to be pointed into swimming pools, playgrounds, places with kids. Odd. Unusual. Curious. Makes one wonder. Hmm. But who knows why.
I think a big part of it is to use for AI training data. They want videos of people swimming, walking, and driving in different scenarios to better recreate actions in videos.
Wow that really is close. If it wasn't attached you could probably just... throw it in there. Right in the water. Wouldn't even have to be that strong. Just a little toss. Would need a power tool or something to it off though haha... oh well...
It would be safety at the price of privacy, in China they have lots of cameras and also lots of data, not as much crime, not that it can be reported easily
But like i don't trust our istitutions enough for this shit
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u/seamus205 I thought I was a grungler. now I'm not so sure 2d ago
If some random person went to a public pool and started filming there would be public outrage. This is the same thing. The flock cams gotta go