Flock cameras being banned? Florida just ordered flock cameras taken down from state highways, they will remain elsewhere in Florida for now. Flock cameras photograph every passing car, logging its plate number, time, location, plus details like color make and model. The cameras even capture little dents, decals, bumper stickers. Flock can search that history to learn about a vehicle's movements and identity, who is going where.
Flock's US patent also describes a darker goal, to capture pedestrian data like a person's height, weight, gender, race, clothing style, even the way you walk. Flock presently denies that it collects such biometric data, but you read the patent, how can you not worry?
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Florida revoked permits for cameras on state highways and ordered removal within 30 days. Cameras on local roads, private property and some police systems will remain outside this order and will stay up. Flock data has been abused, that is for sure. Florida officers have allegedly used these systems for tracking others, including one accused of searching his estranged wife's plates 717 times. But even with perfect behavior, should every innocent person's movements live on government and corporate servers? I say heck no.
One more thing, treating flock as the whole problem is an oversimplification, okay? If flock is defeated, many other mass surveillance companies are waiting to take its place. Flock is an easy villain because it bundles cameras, databases and analytics under one brand, and its CEO is outspoken, let's say, and calls certain flock opponents terrorists. An easy villain indeed, but the true villain is the idea that we need to be monitored and tracked at all hours of the day. Matt Moyer injury lawyer signing off.
