Indiana city ends Flock Safety deal after backlash over license plate cameras

Good! Don’t forget that ALL Flock cameras have at least 2 pounds of copper and 3 grams of gold!

give it six months, they will rebrand and try again.

Good. Once this tech is in, it rarely comes back out, so stopping it early matters. Next step: require any future surveillance contracts to be publicly posted and debated before a single bolt goes in.

Gee what do you know, a populace doesn't like being spied upon.

Good, this should never have happened in the first place. Now hopefully other cities will do the same.

Is it called "Flock" because they want to herd us like sheep?

Great to hear it, now if the rest of the state and hopefully country could follow suit that would be awesome. Spying on citizens is not what any government should be doing as the purpose of a government is to serve their people.

Good. Absolutely no one wants to be tracked by these Flock cameras and they are an invasion of privacy. More cities need to get rid of them.

Finally, some good f****** news for my state lmao

We have them here in Japan called the N-system ran by the government, they’re all over the country they won’t say what they record or how they use the data though

It's Bloomington, IN, so the home of IU! Good on them! If only my city had the nuts to not waste my tax dollars on city-wide surveillance.

The fact that we have them all could be due to politicians having the Dunning–Kruger effect... thinking it will solve problems. All the Flocks need to be removed, as my other posts have said... no amount of contractual or legal agreements will protect YOU from misuse and mishandling of this data collection.

Louis Rossmann and Benn Jordan have been inspiring people across the country to take back their communities. F Flock and all these shitty corpo scum.

Meanwhile in the Indiana city I live in, I see more going up every day. There are two on the same stretch of road that isn't even a city street, it's a shopping district road that feeds into Walmart. There is a flock on either side of the Walmart. Land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy. (Random RATM Lyric). The interesting thing is, I noticed on one of the other Flocks that I get a really close up view of, there is what looks to be a trail camera on the box of the flock system that is getting photos at head level of anyone walking up to the camera who may be interested in testing it's durability.

We have flock cameras where i live. I've made some complaints to my town board. Strangely the people against big brother and big government are very much for third party private surveillance. Very strange.

They aren’t license plate cameras. They’re AI driven passive surveillance of populations.

Why to go Bloomington 👏👏

We need this backlash in every city! What is the blueprint for making this happen? I cannot stand these cameras, and want them gone.

America needs to stop selling its citizens to foreign pedophiles.

Good! F*** those insidious things. Surveillance state can get fucked. We are already surveilled more than enough.

Flock is the perfect example of how the free market needs regulations. It is illegal for the government to put chalk on the tire of your car, because it's a violation of your freedoms. It is illegal for a police officer to run a license plate or background check on someone without reasonable suspicions of a crime. It is however perfectly LEGAL for the government to pay a subscription fee to a private company who's only reason for existence is to provide the real time whereabouts of every American citizen.

Article is paywalled. So regarding the data they did collect, what happens to it? Will it be destroyed/deleted? Who certifies its proper destruction? Who is going to take these cameras down? What are tax payers being charged throughout this process? It’s great the contract is ending. But a case study needs performed on the city council, and Flock agreement. In the beginning, the council was fine with privacy concerns. Due to citizens outrage, they’ve listened and stopped the agreement. But how much did this little failure cost us? And what did we gain, if anything at all? I think whoever approved this needs to step down from their position in disgrace. Or be fired. Because I have no doubt money was involved.

Bloomington is the only city in Indiana with the political will to do this. The rest of the state (and especially Hamilton County) are begging for flock cameras all over their neighbors house.

If you want to help locally or see what has been documented as far as deployment so far. https://deflock.org/

F*** Flock. These things are Trojan horses pretending to protect us but really just want to capture data and help administer a technological police state.

All over my little area, there is these flock cameras. I doubt it’ll ever go away now that it’s here but even if they did, they’ve gotten so much info from us already, i’m sure it doesn’t disappear

Tell them to Flock off.

I think a critical factor to point out is that license plate readers have been around for years, if not decades, it was only when they started cross referencing unnecessary shit, that they became a problem.

This shit is all over the place. Obligatory link to the map so you all can be shocked how your city is selling your location data to a private company too - https://deflock.org/map#map=12/33.554666/-117.228497

Now let’s hope they keep it ended instead of trying to sneak it back in a month later

Take this with a grain of salt, but I asked a police captain about them. What he told me about how they are used isn't for general surveillance of everyone. Law enforcement can enter in a license plate number and if that plate is spotted it lets the police know where the vehicle is located. I have a good friend who was going through a divorce and her soon to be ex decided to set her house on fire. The police entered his license plate number into the system and they were able to locate him driving about 5 miles away. Needless to say, he was stopped and arrested for suspected arson. He's now doing 40 years and she is safe.  Edit, typo

A good laser pointer can mess it up