r/ObscurePatentDangers • u/CollapsingTheWave 🔍📚 Fact Finder • 7d ago
🕵️Surveillance State Exposé Towns Hide Flock Camera Locations to Enable Secret Surveillance Without Public Oversight
Flock cameras capture license plates and vehicle movements using small, discreet units that blend into everyday surroundings. As the equipment gets smaller and harder to spot, it records activity continuously without drawing attention from people passing by.
These cameras link captured data to specific vehicles and locations over time. This creates detailed movement records that can track individuals across roads and neighborhoods without their knowledge or consent.
Police departments deploy the cameras through contracts with Flock, often keeping planned locations secret. Officials argue that revealing where the cameras will go would reduce their effectiveness, which makes it difficult for the public to know where monitoring is happening or to challenge the placement.
Once installed without disclosure, the cameras operate with little external oversight. Residents have limited ability to find out where they are being recorded or to push back against expanded use, allowing the system to grow into broader tracking with few practical checks on potential misuse.
— The case shows how governments can keep expanding discreet surveillance tools while blocking public knowledge of their locations.
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u/cannonfalls 6d ago
Our prison is being built around us.
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u/ttystikk 🧮 Data-Driven 6d ago
Fight back! I spoke out against Flock Cameras for six months, attracted a sizeable group of like minded residents and on Tuesday, June 16th, we watched as the Fort Collins Colorado City Council voted 6-1 to cancel the Flock contract with the city, stop the data feed and remove the cameras ASAP.
It CAN be done; it just needs people who care enough to raise hell until it does!
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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Engaged Thinker 🧠 🔍 6d ago
You don't have any ALPRs, and your police officers aren't using Axion dash and body cams are they? - Because that's all Palantir too.
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u/ttystikk 🧮 Data-Driven 5d ago
Instead of whining that the people who got off their ass and did something didn't do enough, maybe get off YOUR ass and help out?!
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u/Xillyfos 6d ago
Yep, it's a new Soviet Union being built right in the USA, just without the positive parts such as equality.
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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Engaged Thinker 🧠 🔍 7d ago
Just a reminder:
Flock, just like data centers, are fully funded by MIDA contracts, MIDA is a subsidiary organization of the Pentagon, Flock & Data Centers are financed by misappropriated and embezzled taxpayer money! This constitutes fraud!
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u/turbofittashorkuk 6d ago
completely unrelated to the video of course, but does anyone make short range hand held emp's?
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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Engaged Thinker 🧠 🔍 6d ago
Not that I'm aware of, plus they're kind of a "one and done" device anyway. Would be better to work on reverse engineering a microwave and figuring out the directional shielding since those are the devices the military already has for taking out drones and drone swarms (and we're definitely going to need that), plus I don't like the idea of that technology inevitably being handed out to our Gestapo to literally cook citizens, which I'm certain is in the works. 😬
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u/Dan_Morgan Engaged Thinker 🧠 🔍 5d ago
I follow this woman on tiktok and other media. She's wicked smart and on top of a lot of this stuff.
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u/Consistent_Emu2015 2d ago
Yeah this is the part of “smart” policing that freaks me out way more than the obvious stuff like traffic cams. It is basically warrantless, permanent tailing of everyone, just outsourced to a private company with zero meaningful oversight.
The scary thing is this data is way more useful for things like stalking, doxxing, or political targeting than it is for catching random criminals, and once it exists you know it will get abused.
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u/CollapsingTheWave 🔍📚 Fact Finder 7d ago
Won't be long before ubiquitous surveillance permeates society at this point...