Flock's Creepy Surveillance System Coming to a City Near You
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Lee Schmidt and Crystal Arrington live in and around Norfolk, Virginia. Like most ordinary people, they have daily routines. Work, church, trips to the store, visits with family, school pickups. And like most ordinary people, they don’t like the thought of somebody following them around and watching their every move.
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But that is exactly what the city of Norfolk is doing. In 2023, the city installed over 172 cameras around town. These are not your standard traffic cameras. The cameras are strategically placed to capture everybody’s daily travel. They’re straight-up surveillance cameras, set up to watch people 24/7 as they go about their lives.
As the police chief has explained, “it would be difficult to drive anywhere of any distance without running into a camera somewhere.”
The cameras snap photos of every car as they drive by and upload them into a database. Officials can then use this database to go back in time and create maps of where people have been, where they tend to drive, and even who they tend to meet up with. All of this happens without a warrant or even probable cause.
But the Fourth Amendment doesn’t allow the government to set up a surveillance state. If the city wants to track suspicious people, it can do what the police have always done: get a warrant. What the city can’t do, though, is watch ordinary people everywhere they go and create a record of their lives without any judicial oversight. Lee and Crystal, with help from the Institute for Justice, are suing to make sure of that.
No one should live under constant government surveillance. Join IJ’s Merry Band of Monthly Donors to help defend the Fourth Amendment and hold officials accountable: ij.org/support/give-now/?recurring=1&monthlyother=5&Norfolk+Monthly+pinned&Advertising&UA-cam
I'm being surveiled for 10 years straight... for exhale, every time i go to a new place (leave my geo fence) they sick the cops on me to see what I'm doing in the new place.....p.s. did you know, police use the TPMS system to track cars?
1984 police state. All roads paved with good intentions still lead to hell. Any gov organization stating that they are doing something for your" safety" is lying and only seeks to have more power and control over you and it ALWAYS is mishandled where there is frequent abuse.
Good idea. Start in the vicinity of all doughnut shops.
We're being biologically surveilled in our own homes right now folks. Better get ahead of this unless you're just here to make people believe there's some fighting back.
The bladrunners in the UK have a good approach to tackling overreaching surveillance cameras.
Let's make it accessible to the public so we can track all the government officials and employees! Bet it'll disappear after that.
Or Healthcare ceo
it is if you're good enough
I was thinking the same thing. We should be able to track the biggest criminals in our city. The police and city council of course.
Bingo!
Exactly, good post.
Americans are not the enemy. It's the government that needs to be watched and be held accountable.
They know how they are so they scared we like that
Yes but when you run out of enemies abroad....
Says who. Depends on what you say and do
To be more specific: ✡️👹💩
@@Chris-yg6lo Lets check your HDD, those temporary internet files and cookies...
What's creepier than the cameras are the town officials and cops who think this is a wonderful idea.
They don’t give a crap about you! “Money, please!?!”
'Cause they're LAZY & won't have to do their job--INVESTIGATE.
"but if you're not breaking the law you have nothing to worry about". Yeah, that's bullshit.
This is why the founders wrote a forgotten document called the Deck luh rashun uv En duh pen dance. It tells about what we are to do when government no longer serves our needs.
They're nice if you got your car stolen, tracking down a shooter, tracking down an amber alert vehicle, and finding a hit & run driver...but there is no oversight on these. I have seen personal use cases already, they are being abused. Flock does have transparency report portals which are optional for departments to publish, it shows reasons listed in each query. Suspicion is one of the widely used phrases in the justification note section, sometimes they just put "pd" in the box. Departmental policy can not keep this program checked & balanced. They say the FBI does not have direct access, but they do.
This is an absolute huge issue. I used to have one of these cameras at an apartment complex that I owned, and the company would encourage me to share the information with the police department. The purpose of this was to keep my tenants, safe and secure, and if something occurred on the property, I could then report it, but taking that extra step of allowing the police department to access it whenever they wanted seemed a bridge too far and I eventually got rid of the system. And it's worse than this because these systems are intertwining with license plate readers on police cruisers and other city vehicles to the point where you can track where cars are going across state lines. There are multiple cases in Arkansas available on UA-cam where they pulled a vehicle over and got a major drug bust… During the interrogation of the driver, the driver will say something to the effect of "I'm coming from Oklahoma" and the officer will say "well your vehicle was observed in New Mexico yesterday and you've driven down this road back-and-forth multiple times in the last month"… It really is not OK. privacy laws need to be made much stronger, this information needs to be dumped every x amount of days, and courts need to be involved in even accessing the system because without that, of course they're going to start tracking their wives and girlfriends… Their political opponents… Or the cute girl driving the Mustang that they just so happen to see and want to know where she goes… The list of abuse is goes on and on and on... and that doesn't even bring about the fact that it becomes at target to hack.
Private citizens should not be forced to share what is on our cameras. It is an abuse. Judges should not sign orders to take it, even with a warrant. These cameras were installed for our protection and were never to be used against us. We can use it to defend ourselves, but we are not required to assist the police in their investigations using our cameras for their use. If we volunteer to share a portion of our video, that should only be up to the owner. If the homeowner is murdered, then the family should have the sole right to share the video or not. We need to be protected from this increasing abusive overreach. Do not wait for your rights to be amended; speak up now, even if it is only a post on UA-cam.
Thank you for your comment. I completely agree. How many times have police been caught using their badge as an excuse to follow and harass or harm someone. Whether it be their wife/gf or just a random person they don't like
Creepy is right. How about we put those cameras in public buildings and watch the watchers?
They already do. Those things (not human) don't care because they're inbred sheep.
Courts allow the public to see their affairs, oh no, ...
@@danielraypickrel4316 sheep
Know your place, peasant.
Exactly look how they freaked out about auditors@@danielraypickrel4316
Anyone living in a city with these should be filing a law suit to end the unconstitutional surveillance. How this legal is beyond me.
*This is not only in Norfolk.*
These FLOCK cameras are _all over_ the country.
Yes- true, Neighboring city of Suffolk has them all over, even in the rural areas.
They boast 1 BILLION hits a day
This is covered in the video. Over 5000 communities use this.
We have them in central Florida
This video even shows that they aren't just in VA. Did you even watch it? 😅
Our rural POA tried to go behind the resident's backs and put these in. Luckily we found out and put a stop to it. Now I'm running for the board to ensure this sort of nonsense doesn't happen again.
Lmao. You alone will stave off inevitable police state 😂
@@Bestest_comment he's not alone. Your unverbalized compliance and acquiescing is exactly what the small hats want👹✡️
@Bestest_comment And you alone will help usher it in 🙄
Go for the “head of the snake” by taking the company to court for providing the tech to unconstitutionally provide data without court warrants.
That's currently happening.
But, but, it's 'for the greater good'.
Most people can't afford to take anything to court !
The Government: We are going to watch every move you make
Also the Government: You can't film us
I'm so happy that IJ has taken on this case. Flock cameras are an absolute overstep of government.
It's for the "People" 😂😂😂
There were dot cameras on a state highway near my town. They replaced the camera 5 times.
Then " someone " dug up the whole footing , pole and ran over the camera with an excavator.
They gave up .... finally
We live in an increasingly authoritarian Police State.
Yes we are and I for one am tired of it!!! 😢
Basically we are the frog in boiling water. They are slowly turning up the heat by taking and breaking each constitutional right. People keep writing things off under the pretense of crime being the worst it’s been (not true) and “if you didn’t do anything then there’s nothing to worry about “ (like innocence stands in the way of a conviction or forced plea).
It’s basically “back the blue til it happens to you!” In a nutshell.
So they can work from home
We are all criminals in one way or another in the eyes of government.
Dont be DUMB...theres cams everywhere already.....your ah lame....
Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
"Safety" like those kids in Uvalde, TX. The Supreme Court has said that the police have NO DUTY to protect the public: Castle Rock v. Gonzales, DeShaney v. Winnebago County and Warren v. DC.
Many LEO's are terrified of citizens recording them in public, but at the same time sing the praises of unconstitutionally surveilling those very same citizens!
Let’s start policing our government entities.
They are everywhere. We need multiple lawsuits nationwide
Thank you so much for covering this.
Thank you , Sir!!! I will check to see if any localities in my city use this.
This 100% is an invasion of privacy. Why does anyone need to know where everyone is? The vast, vast majority of citizens are law abiding, what gives the police the belief they can violate everyone's constitutional rights by an unlawful search?
Would it be different if they put it up in high crime areas?
Because sadly and disturbing they can it's a security risk for citizens
@@funkydiscogod And who says what a "high crime area" is, the police, once you give them an inch they will drag you a mile.
"You can be tracked in public" was created in an environment where "everyone can be tracked in public" was infeasible.
And it's been proven that few employees of this company got cought tracking their exes...
Good for you guys! Thank you for your work!
I think it was in Belgium prior to World War II that people had to register their religion with the government. Of course, there were objections. But, the government said that nothing would happen. Then Germany invaded Blegium and accessed those paper records and found out where all the Jews were living and rounded them up more easily. And THIS is the problem with having records of private people's information.
This was the comment I've been looking for. Thank you.
IBM already had the census data ready for the Nazis. The participation of IBM in the Holocaust was kept secret until the 1990s. The number on the wrist of German prisoners was their IBM punchcard number.
All it takes is one bad actor. I don’t care if their intentions are good ( to be clear, I don’t believe they are, being in the vicinity of some random crime could ruin your life with this) all it takes is one person who is acting in bad faith. One person with power can ruin so many lives.
@@Marynicole830 Yes, exactly
Use of a public thoroughfare is public information, though. There is no privacy in public spaces.
Not that we actually get privacy anyway, but in public spaces that's just not a thing & never has been & in practical terms it never really could be.
The world is becoming a dystopian nightmare
1984
Like Minority Report
It's ALL Biblical!!!
has become
Flock was founded in 2017.[6] It was co-founded by three Georgia Tech alumni: Garrett Langley (chief executive officer), Paige Todd (chief people officer), and Matt Feury (chief technology officer).[7][8] It began as a side project in which the three co-founders built their first video surveillance cameras by hand around Langley's dining room table.[7] When a DeKalb County detective told Langley that his camera product had helped with solving a home break-in, Langley called the two other co-founders and told them to quit their jobs.[7]
Flock has raised $380 million in venture funding, with a $3.5 billion valuation in 2022.[9]
This WILL result in police shortcutting their investigations to "the system told us you deviated from your routine today, can you prove your whereabouts?"
Guilty until proven innocent every time.
This is already happening with predictive policing
@@frotobaggins7169
Hopefully that changes or we may have to figure out how to secure a future for us and the younger generation with some sort of reforms and overhaul the bureaucracy.
Everyone should consider guilty until proven innocent to be a problem because of the court systems eagerness to pick with completely innocent men and women.
Guilty until proven beyond a reasonable doubt is the only absolution.
Already happened in town of Suffolk, VA. Someone got shot at during a road rage incident. They called the police and they did an “investigation”. Police said they did not have enough evidence but, as the driver stated, there were Flock cameras on the road they were driving on. They closed their investigation later that day.
That in itself is a violation of the Fourth amendment.
I appreciate you guys bringing attention to this and I am donating right now !
Yesterday, the city of Cincinnati announced a new, voluntary, program for civilians and businesses to link their private security cameras to the police department. They claim that cops won't be able to just login and watch your camera feed, but you know they will.
If not the cops the feds for sure.
You can bet they will if you commit a crime. They will likely say, because you agreed, signed up and gave them permission, they don't need a warrant. You would have to be insane to give the police access to any camera or recording device. Remember when they used to hood wink parents in to getting their kids finger printed at the police department "in case of kid napping" Yeah, do you think they don't use that information in every crime? Your kid never agreed to have their finger prints databased but, there they are for the rest of their lives.
They can and do already get Ring (and others) footage from private camera systems whether you like it or not.
Tried this in Utah as well... I think it was in conjunction with RING though, not that RING can't already share your camera footage with anyone who will pay money for it....
They never create a way for the general public, at random, to keep an eye on the activity of those cameras! Too much accountability!
Sounds like an unlawful search
Thank you, IfJ, for the tireless work!
It's easy for officials to justify this kind of garbage in the name of public safety but the reality is that you're surrendering your liberty for nothing. Thanks for taking this case, IJ!
That's exactly what Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles said while she was with Trump.
We have to keep people safe - so she won't let the homeowners go back to their properties.
Trump called her out on that B.S.
@@skippylippy547 only because it happened to make him look better in the moment. You really think he wouldn’t be on board with this crap? He has already shown allegiance to tyrant cops and politicians. He openly talks about it. Mass surveillance is right up his alley. He may dance around it or deny it when asked directly but his actions and other words in the past clearly shows he is on the side of authoritarianism, fascism, and tyranny. It’s like the meaning of these words, especially tyranny, have been lost. It’s not just what you don’t like, it’s a set of governmental behaviors and polices.
If a cop can pull up to a car they suspect is stolen and beat the crap out of the janitor because he had keys in his hands and didn’t want to talk to them anymore (the keys were for the company and looked nothing like a car fob. They were old fashioned keys, yet they claim they thought the huge ring of dozens of keys were for the car in question) and get away with it, their department saying they didn’t violate policy (means nothing. Their policy doesn’t reflect the law or morality) then we are already well into these things we use those words to describe. And when the sitting president supports the people who perpetuate it? It’s not good. I’ll tell you that.
He’s evil, the dems are useless and we have lost this country already. We aren’t going to get it back by sucking up to the politicians that got us here (and yes, Trump is included) or the wealthy that are guiding the government in this direction. There is a class where the law protects but doesn’t bind, and a class where the law binds and doesn’t protect. All that’s happening now is what has always happened, it’s just the group that is protected is getting smaller and the group that is bound is getting larger so people who used to be in the former group find themselves in the latter these days. They act so surprised but it’s always been like this, it’s just happened to people you didn’t care about.
I can only donate $5 a month to the IFJ. I wish I could give more, but i know it is put to fantastic use with causes like this.
You folks are the best!!!! Thank you IJ!!!!!!
Thank you Lee and IJ. 🙏 ☮️
Thank you Lee and the Institute for Justice. This surveillance is unconstitutional, I certainly hope that the justice system supports us.
I have a working relationship with a vendor to Flock and got introduced to these cameras that way. The company makes it almost irresistibly cheap to install these cameras and then they charge for the monitoring, which is then supported financially by the tickets the cameras enable for speeding, expired tag, and so on. And that doesn't begin to address the privacy concerns, the search and seizure of your information for just existing in public.
So even broke little towns and counties are able to implement this dystopian surveillance and are incentivized to do so because their few deputies can't be everywhere and see everything and now they can just mail a ticket saying "you owe us $85 for speeding 7 miles over the limit on the 20th of last month on State Road between mile markers 22 and 25, plus a $7 service fee and a $5 convenience fee", or whatever, and good luck fighting them.
You have to have a warrant signed by a judge in order to put a tracker on a car but they can do this and get around it. I don't see how that doesn't fly in the face of previous rulings. Ridiculous!
Your car is tracking you
Cookeville TN has refused FOIA requests for a copy of the city contract and has lied to me multiple times about how many are installed.
The scariest part is police are gonna start coming to your door to talk to you when you take a different street home than your normal route. Gotta make sure your not doing anything suspicious
I try to go different routes as much as possible. I don't have a routine. But with enough cameras, they can follow you wherever you go.
we only have ring doorbell cameras at the houses around where i live
i walk the streets here with a sword (entirely legal, no permit or anything needed), dont behave menacingly or anything bad
i saw someone in his car looking terrified, i could hear his call bc it was on speaker, it was super loud, this was several blocks from my house, he did not follow me at all
soon after, the cops showed up at my door, they knew exactly which house i entered at the end of my walk
FYI: A 10nm laser would burn out the CCD chip in the camera, an 10nm IR laser would be invisible to the eye any low light optic would pick it up. The goal is to turn it into London with CCTV and emission readers for taxation purposes.
How many watts would the laser need to be? Cause I see 112W Nichia lasers on eBay for half a grand
@@Nexalian_Gamer 5w would do the job. CCD chips are very light sensitive.
@@scipher99
Would a 455nm laser at 67W be sufficient?
@@Nexalian_Gamer I see you want to melt it right off the pole. lol
@@scipher99
Well that but also I have plans to turn it into a rifle. Mainly because lasers are completely silent, can prolly go through bulletproof glass, and don't need any special ammo to work. Makes them VERY hard to track and control
I've seen them everywhere here in southeast, GA. People, the cameras only look 1 direction. It surprises me why mysterious damage isn't constantly occurring to these illegal government devices. I think it should start.
Carrollton Georgia has them
Oh look a chainsaw cut the pole that Flock eyeball was impaled on! Oh my 😮
This comment got you put on a list somewhere...........😉
We're"on a list" as soon as we're born my friend.@@MXstar189
peach county Georgia has them
Not for safety it’s for control
It would be a real shame if something happened to those cameras.
That's what I'm saying lol Europeans have been showing us exactly how to deal with this for at least the last 5 years now.
Sad, but it would only cost the taxpayer money. Then the City woud replace them...more cost.
@@deadave100 we're already paying for them: The installs, maintenance/upkeep, the network that makes the footage available, etc. ... What I'm referring to is getting our moneys' worth for this thing we in no way, shape, or form asked for... 🤣😂🤷♂️
@@deadave100
The ULEZ contract makes ULEZ pay for repairs and replacements.
God bless those angels of freedom.
A magnetron will burnout the camera
Thank you for explaining what these were. I’ve seen them and found their company but couldn’t find the purpose.
Maybe one day people will wake up and realize we lost our rights a long time ago.
Everybody is worried about cameras but your phones not only track you …they listen.
i run grapheneos, cell companies still know where im at by cell tower triangulation but my phone dont listen to what im saying. also my baseband shuts off just going into airplane mode so if i ever need extra stealth i got it
These cameras are nationwide...In practically every city! I just found out my city has 9 of them, Population around 30K people...And I'm betting they are abused and used for nefarious intentions by all law enforcement...That power is just too tempting for them to resist!
only 9? you lucky. my city got 9 in every square mile
Why don’t we have a national law that cops can’t use ANY databases for activities unrelated to their job?
I work in Wichita, a few months ago a driver hit my car at a busy city intersection and ran off. I called the WPD to the scene (showed up after a half hour) who assured me that unfortunately they could do nothing to track the car, in fact when I called 911 I provided the direction of travel of the runaway car but instead they bogged me down on the phone to get my details first. This was late at night and very little traffic, it was a hit and run. Now I learn that there are cameras and at the very least at the traffic lights! Now I’m upset, I had to pay a deductible of 750 $!! No effort was made to find the perpetrator!
A few years ago my cousin was parked on the street by her apartment. Overnight an SUV rammed into her parked car and drove away. The entire thing was caught on a surveillance camera of the office next door and someone down the street got the plate. When called out, Chicago police said it "wasn't their job" to catch this person and told her to give the info to her insurance.
@@HariSeldon913 amazing
I guess this means the cameras are not to assist citizens but to spy on them .
Because these cameras aren't there to HELP you. They are there to persecute you.
@@HariSeldon913 They have no duty to act. So why do we need them.
Great video!
Here in Memphis, TN these exact cameras are EVERYWHERE‼️On streets, shopping center parking lots, AND in most other parking lots around the city. So many in fact that even a short trip in the city, you’ll pass by quite a few. These license plate readers are also mounted on the emergency blue light bar atop a number of the police cars!
You might say, big brother is watching like never before!
Hello, follow memphian, and you are absolutely right. i think I drive past twenty every morning... it sucks.
Memphis is still off the chain too, so wonder what they really do with the data
I was in an abusive relationship and i had a hard enough time getting away with regular trackers and airtags being a problem. Imagine how unsafe this is. There is a huge problem with police officers being abusive or stalking. Imagine how easily this can be used to hurt, threaten, target or harass someone. This is way too far and its not even public knowledge. We never even had a chance to say no we dont want this
If a judge ruled them illegal then the citizen's need to start pulling them down
Good luck with that. I hope you like prison clothes.
Why wait for a a judge ?
@kaboom4679
Uhmm .... cuz .... jail maybe?
Blade Runners like in the UK. 😃
@@skippylippy547Don't get caught.
Never assume that the tools of government cannot be used against you, and maliciously.
Let's not ignore the 4,000 FedEx trucks being equipped with this same cameras and sharing their data as well!
That's what I was thinking.
Home Depot is also installing them at their parking lot entrances to capture every vehicle entering.
Same with Lowe’s.
That surveillance is disgusting, as well as admiration for such thing.
Our county gave up on cameras when their first dozen were shot to pieces or taken to use as trail cams. A country boy can survive.
need more counties like this
The PNW here.
Cowlitz county is like that.
Good idea!
That system is so vulnerable, you need a simple not-so-legal software to intercept and connect to it.
Do tell
Countermeasures: spray paint, paint balls, trash bags, sticky mouse traps, accidentally ran over, accidentally of course 😂
Yep. Cut the wires
@longsleevethong1457 I think they are wireless.
none of that actually destroys the camera though. I wonder how much power a laser needs to damage the sensor?
@@FriendlyEagle7 Not much as camera sensors and very vulnerable to bright lights.
@FriendlyEagle7 a high powered pellet rifle will
Your car technology is tracking you, your phone is tracking you -- this is another layer of
Camden County Missouri has made an ordinance that within county limits the LPR and flock cameras are not allowed. The state however refused to remove the last camera along the highway. One of the council members removed it himself after so long and now has charges against him and the state put the camera back almost immediately
County sheriff is highest law of the land. Not state police. Elected sheriff can end it if he chooses too.
So glad I quit visiting that area regularly a decade ago.
Won't catch me coming through there, I'll spend money elsewhere.
@@stevenmiller6725 No that would be the elected District Attorney. They can put the Sheriff in jail...
@terryjoyner8649 they can try.... more likely that sheriff puts AG in jail because he or she runs it. Sheriff could stop the cameras if they chose too, most likely they want them or just don't care.
I live 20 minutes from town and these things are everywhere. Ridiculous overreach that needs to be stopped
Thank you for bringing this to our attention !
Thank you for this informative video. I live in a rural village, one of the larger towns, near by, is where I shop and get services. Yep, they have Flock Surveillance. Not happy.
PRIVACY is the vital issue of this age. THANK YOU for filing this lawsuit. Please keep us posted on its status.
It pisses me off even more that they are taking your money to watch you. Who asked for that?
The Yuma Sheriff and Yuma PD were gang stalking me for taking pictures in public. I could never figure out how they were always following me around town.
This explains a lot.
make a photo-blog website of "scenic yuma" and "people of yuma" and "yuma life".
when they ask what you're doing, show them the blog and ask them if they'd like to pose for a photo.
@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 cop pose for a photo!!!🤣
@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 I don’t think you quite grasp the barren hellscape that is Yuma Arizona.
Even if the city doesn’t have cameras, they could very well be tracking through GPS or phone tracking.
Ill take " things this that never happened for 2000, alex" 😂😂 one look at this guys unhinged profile tells me the "pictures" you were taking were of the "civil rights auditor" variety. The ones where you go into a public building and get in everyones face with a camera trying to get someone to snap..losers like you dont help the injustice going on in this country. You just make it worse.stop blaming the police for all our problems because some of them are out of line. Its the politicians setting the rules.
Thank you for your work on this. I am against all forms of government surveillance. These cameras have started showing up in my area. Lowes actually uses them on their parking lots!
Damn strait!~ keep up the good work IJ
I called 911 a few years ago. The paramedics who showed up knew my husband had a broken ankle at the time.
That's disturbing!
#WTF
Companies name their products for their customers. It is telling that municipalities are marketed and sold a product called "flock". They really do think of us as sheep.
Exactly. There is a reason things are named what they are, and there is a reason for company logos. I got blocked from my twitter account for saying the lights on the Space Needle looked a lot like what Dr Madej saw when looking at the C venom under a 400 power microscope. They have even used movies to show us what they intend to do to us.
It’s one thing to monitor the streets for crime and traffic but another to conduct surveillance on law abiding citizens violating their rights to personal commute and free travel. No sovereign citizen crap either. They are psychoanalyzing society to further control humanity.
Judges, please deal with these surveillance violations.
Many people will talk about what harm they COULD do with this surveillance. THE SURVEILLANCE is the FIRST HARM. Never forget that.
Surveillance
Monitoring
Analysis
Reporting
Tracking
Good reminder
A.C.R.O.N.Y.M
You forgot selling ; ultimately someone will start selling that data..
Spotted one in the Home Depot parking lot at Dobson and 202 in Mesa AZ
While they’re following your vehicle around the city, if you are a target, they’ll be breaking into your house vandalizing it, knowing that you are not home. How do I know this? These cameras have been all around Manalapan New Jersey where I lived for 30 years as original owner as far back as 2018.
Wait till they put them in neighborhoods to watch you walking outside and what is going on at your house. For safety.
Thanks for your humanitarian work.
I strongly believe that; doesn't matter what the law orders: government don't care about. They'll continue doing it. As always.
Surely deputized public servants would never abuse their authority against the plebes...would they? Perish the thought!
We already have telescreens on our walls and carry around location tracking listening devices all day. Naturally they think nothing of putting up a bunch of cameras to build profiles of every one of us. Big Brother has been masquerading as Uncle Sam for longer than you think.
We already have that in my small town. I flip it off every time I pass.
Under the guise of safety, most will give up their Constitutional rights.
Just like the Patriot Act, that nobody had the time to read before signing upon. The myth about the Patriot Act - that every tone just thinks that it expired. Some of it has, almost all of it has not.
Or expand upon it. The same *OBAMA that deported three million* also signed Presidential Order 20, to expand upon the Patriot Act
I can't think of a single instance of a camera preventing a crime . If anything crime has increased dramatically since they have become normalized
Some fun facts about Flock:
- They're priced low enough that they don't generally require lengthy approvals from governments. Most can just ram them through quickly and quietly.
- They're selling these to private businesses to install at the entrance/exits to parking lots.
- They're selling these to HOAs. The HOA Karen that has a vendetta against you can track when you enter/leave your neighborhood!
Thank you for your for fight against the government!
So glad you filed this suit! I hope you win Big!
I love how Flock has positive sounding reassuring names for things like "Safety Falcon". Dystopia.
Remember the show "Person of Interest"? Yea, that's what this reminds me of.
Unwarranted search leads to unwarranted seizure.
You are not the only one concerned. There is a group in the UK who go out with angle grinders and cut these down.
Each year we get a step closer to 1984 and yet we are in 2025.
Give everyone a mobile phone - check.
Get everyone to use the internet - check.
Install cameras in most areas - check.
Get people to share their lives - check.
Create digital IDs - check.
Look at making everyone going cashless - in progress.
Well done you have achieved a social credit system where you can now control anyone.
Seems like this is a good time for someone to pull a cool hand Luke on the cameras
IIRC, that does not end well.
A few months ago, an unmarked vehicle with two individuals installed a camera on the light post in front of our house, pointing towards the street. Since we had previously dealt with a stalker, we became alarmed when we noticed the camera had no markings. Concerned, we decided to ask our neighbors if they knew anything about it. We eventually found out that a DEA agent had installed the camera because she had received threats and lived a few houses down.
I fully support security measures, but I believe residents should be informed when something like this happens. However, since we weren’t given any explanation beforehand, we filed a complaint with the sheriff, and the camera was taken down. It’s unsettling that they can install surveillance like this without notifying anyone.
They most likely had a warrant to put that camera up. And it should have only been pointed to the house the warrant was for.
Flat out unconstitutional
According to the internet they're easily disabled one wire between the solar panel and camera.
Flock out unconstitutional
Not when you are using a public roadway..... may not like it but it's not illegal.
@@BUCKETJON flock out unconstitutional
@@alm4132 we’ll see Kamela Xi
Doesn’t want to be tracked, has a radio transponder attached to windshield lmao
What The Flock ?!?!
Digital camera ccd( image capture chip) hates laser pointers . Ultra violate or green would be the most detrimental . Infrared would be more effective at night as the UV filter turns off at night in most cases . They also don't like high voltage .
flock cameras dont like birdshot from a cheapo walmart shotgun either
Just looked it up and Richmond and Chesterfield County VA also have this system. I’m appalled.
You don't appreciate your privacy until you've lost it.
I don’t trust this at all way to easy for abuse 😊
Send this to Donald Trump's desk right now and get this outlawed across America.!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to everyone who says '"This doesn't affect me because I have nothing to hide": It's exactly that kind of erroneous thinking that has brought us to this place. People paying to wear Fitbits and having surveillance devices in their own homes is pure insanity. It's no wonder the powers-that-be are ramping up the surveillance out in the open. Let's just hope IJ and Mr. Schmidt prevail in this lawsuit!
What brought us to this situation is crime that's what there for it helps with abduction and stolen cars u know bad shit it's always a complaint until that's ur car that just been stolen from ur driveway.
The cameras are in public spaces. I’m no fan but I don’t see how it is invading privacy. There’s no assumption of privacy in public spaces.
@@bobsmith2691 It's invading privacy when it is using AI to track innocent individuals and build profiles of all of us on a global basis, which goes far beyond snapping random photos .