How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
2026-07-12 15:15 UTC
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-07-13 03:05
It should be legal to obscure your license plate until all flock cameras are dismantled, and AI usage is banned for use by police
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-07-13 03:09
Flock was literally built for this (to track stolen cars), not how it’s frequently used (for police to stalk ex girlfriends) …and they can’t even do the one thing they were designed for.
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@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2026-07-12 15:51
So many fucking horror stories about Flock and how their cameras are misused. The one that makes my skin crawl the most was the Texas cop who stalked someone traveling out of state for an abortion, seeing as how one’s geographical location here in the US largely dictates their right to privacy and bodily autonomy. (And it’s a clear violation of civil liberties to stalk them using a nationwide dragnet.) If anyone’s bored, I made a video this week about a vigilante in Suffolk Virginia who (allegedly) destroyed more than a dozen of them.
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@rekabis@lemmy.ca 2026-07-13 04:01
It’s time people started to pack a dark hoodie and a battery powered angle grinder wherever they go. These cameras need to be taken down the instant they appear.