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📍 Texas: Texas city charged over $2 million for Flock camera records.
Source: kcentv.com, 10/07
#Flock #surveillance #Texas

📍 Damascus, Virginia: ended its Flock camera contract.
Headline: “Damascus cancels Flock cameras contract, joining other Virginia localities…”
Source: cardinalnews.org, 10/08
That's the 44th place in our ledger to end or pause Flock cameras in the last 30 days.
#Flock #surveillance #Virginia

Police searched one license plate database 12 million times, with hundreds of searches flagging protest as a behavior of interest. Without legal limits, AI surveillance can be turned against dissent, write Cato’s Matthew Cavedon and Laura Bondank-Harmon.
#ALPR #Axon #Flock #Surveillance

📍 Fort Pierce, Florida: is removing its Flock cameras.
Headline: “Flock cameras are removed in Fort Pierce”
Source: yahoo.com, 10/08
That's the 43rd place in our ledger to end or pause Flock cameras in the last 30 days.
#Flock #surveillance #Florida

“This isn’t science fiction. It’s increasingly how our digital world operates.”

#surveillance
#privacy
#socialmedia

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Is there a way to block Meta Muse from a web site without blocking all Google Chrome on Linux or running a fingerprinting script?

(Chrome/Linux users, are you getting blocked as a bot in more places now?)

#meta #ai #surveillance

A reporter documenting Flock camera installation was stopped by police after the installer expressed fear of being followed. The irony: cameras tracking public movements, yet the installer fears being photographed in public. #privacy #surveillance

#Meta’s #Muse collects hourly data to build files on users’ friends and family, raising #privacy risks. Researchers describe this as #surveillance, while engineers warn of potential #breaches following a rushed fix.…

Some of my best results came from customer calls that, by all objective measures, should have been catastrophes. It's just stupid to assume we can measure human connections during a call. However, we can destroy trust and corporate culture with AI.
#AI #surveillance

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This is interesting... I wish my brain still worked well enough to do the same thing where I live in Texas
#ice
#flock
#surveillance

General Rule:

Someone will always use a technology to do something stupid or evil to another person.

Special Rule:

LLMs are a technology that will allow a few people to do stupid or evil things to a shitload of people.
#Surveillance #Enshittification

«أخطر ما يفعله النظام ليس أنه يعرف الكثير عن البشر. بل أن يمتلك القوة اللازمة لمعاملتهم كما لو أن ما عرفه هو كل ما هم عليه.»

من «خارج الخريطة — هندسة الآخر» #surveillance #dataprivacy

A warrant includes $3.8M for dredging and bans two ALPR cameras.
Source: provincetownindependent.org, 10/07
#Flock #surveillance

A week from today during @cato.org #Surveillance Week, we examine the role of commercially available data and its role in fueling the new American surveillance dystopia. Register now.

Local police license plate data is being pulled onto federal servers through a 1980s drug program called HIDTA, per a 404 Media investigation. Your council gets a vote on its own cameras. It doesn't get one on a federal database. More in the next post. #privacy #surveillance #ALPR

📅 On the agenda: Pomona, California. The Police Oversight Commission's Tue Oct 13, 6:30 PM meeting (item 3) includes the item “Establishment of FLOCK Camera Ad Hoc Committee It is recommended that the Police Oversight Commission appoin…”.
From the official agenda, l…
#Flock #surveillance #California