106
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 49 points 20 hours ago

Flock also vehemently denies that their cameras are full of components and materials with a high resale value, and wants the public to stop treating them like catalytic converters.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 points 20 hours ago

I do not know much about flock cameras. Where are they installed? And why?

[-] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 27 points 20 hours ago

Networked security cameras that detect license plates, identifying features, etc. Sold to law enforcement, but also to home owners and businesses.

The data they collect is used by ICE to maximize their crimes against humanity.

[-] French75@slrpnk.net 14 points 16 hours ago

I think your description is reasonable, however I'd argue that they are not security cameras. Rather a nationwide public surveillance network intended to circumvent the 4th amendment.

Flock doesn't secure people or property. They merely catalog the movements of people and vehicles for future law enforcement work, allowing both current location searches and comprehensive retrospective location history searches, all without warrants or court orders. Again, not picking on you here; just adding some color because while security camera is easy to understand, it also has a connotation that is quote different from what flock does.

[-] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The added depth is good. I gave a pretty thin tl;dr.

[-] French75@slrpnk.net 10 points 19 hours ago

Face detection as well, and partnered with Amazon Ring.

[-] harmbugler@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

We're not forcing Flock on anyone

this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
106 points (98.2% liked)

Hacker News

4207 readers
423 users here now

Posts from the RSS Feed of HackerNews.

The feed sometimes contains ads and posts that have been removed by the mod team at HN.

Source of the RSS Bot

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS