It’s nice to see the American Revolutionary Spirit is still alive. Destroying Flock cameras is today’s version of dumping tea in Boston’s harbor. I’m also all for taking down Somali flags in front of certain Blue City Halls, during the Independence Day holiday.
Amen 🙏. My attitude is and always will be is, mind your own business, do not ever step foot on my property without my consent, and the government ( let alone anyone else) has zero right to interfere in my life. I do not require a “permit” to do anything on my land. Period. Full stop.
If I want to erect the Tower of Piza on my land, I will do so. It will not obscure anyone’s view because I have no neighbours! However, I cannot do a thing on my own damn property without first obtaining a “permit!” Yeah, that ain’t happening any time soon.
I’m irritated by all the delivery people taking pics of my
mailbox, then coming down our driveway which is very long. They then take 2-3 pics of the package that they usually leave TOUCHING the (mostly glass) front door. Anyone casing the joint for a robbery would take fewer pics. It feels pretty invasive.
I must admit, these pics, which they send to my email, have made me remember to water my porch plants a few times, so there’s that.
Invade people’s privacy and send those pics to Amazon/China/whoever. You never know. You may save a life— of a colossal fern.
The solution is to not allow the AI surveillance system to be built out to enslave us. The writing has been on the wall. There is no justification to allow this into a free and open society. Look at what Chinese society is like today and ask yourselves if this is what we want for ourselves and for our children.
If they want to monitor us, why don't we flip the script and monitor them? All politicians, executives of publicly traded companies, and anyone with any influence at all on a global scale should be tracked, traced, and recorded for accountabe purposes. You want to inject every American with an experimental clot shot? Then show us who exactly allowed this to happen and tell us who will be held accountability when people start to drop dead.
And require "those people" to be injected like they require of the normies. Not a good look when Congress is opted out of the very things that are mandated for non-congressional humans.
While the Flock cameras have drawn attention. This is not a new problem, it's just getting worse.
Mass surveillance is growing. People just haven't paid much attention to the fact that our phone conversations are listened to and scanned (this has been going on for a half a century or longer!), our emails are read, our web searches are observed. We live in a fishbowl and the glass is becoming more and more transparent by the day.
It's so creepy when I have a private conversation in person, and something in that conversation ends up being in a bunch of ads on Facebook a short time later. You KNOW "they" are listening.
That has happened more times than I can count. Even in rooms where you think no device is on.
I do not carry a cell phone. I was at the home of a friend who was telling me his psychologist wife was almost done with requirements to use “Ecstasy” as a therapy. I said I wasn’t familiar with that drug,etc.. I have NEVER googled anything about this in my life,but,when I turned on my iPad,AT HOME,that same afternoon,the first thing that pops into my YouTube feed was Alex DeGrassie video titled “ Let’s explore what Ecstasy is!😳 I assume my friend cell was on ,but,how in the world did that information follow me?
Because your friend's phone had "location" turned on. On my Android phone, I turn that off for all apps except mapping apps, where my location shows up as a dot on the map when that app is turned on (I like to think...).
If their location matches the cell-tower detected location of your husband's phone, then bingo. Ads get targeted to you based on what is heard through her mic. Explainable, but very creepy, right?
Very creepy,indeed! Makes perfect sense though, because even though I don’t pack a cell,he does,and,we both have iPads. Different addresses,but,one shared “family” email… so,it lock on to HIS address and followed me that way…sheesh! Whew…
Yea,but,we are talking about NOT using our devices to look for something. Just TALKING together and it pulls advertising to us…there IS no privacy if you use google/ AI,or ,even,just talk…
Sometimes my wife and I make up ridiculous scenarios with a product imbedded in the conversation. Guess what shows up in some little advertisement a few days later?
I was prompted to act quickly last week to download my Facebook history file prior to them deleting it (I'm sure Meta wants to recover server storage and NSA already downloaded that file). It was shocking to see that all of my conversations, likes, saves, etc., have been archived - and probably sold to online marketers as well. I'm sure I'm on some list somewhere too..
No cell phone (landline), 25 year old car, nothing on the cloud, never on social media, location services off, microphone and camera on Ipad off (and freqently rechecked) and electrician's tape over the camera lens. Network comes up as 'Hidden' as there are no other connections close by. While I do order on-line, it's cash anywhere in person. Doing the best I can in this Mad World.
Excellent. I think the only thing I'd add would be when traveling if you bring your iPad keep it powered off and inside a faraday bag except when you are using it.
I wrapped my phone in aluminum foil while riding around on my motorcycle for a few days last week. I liked the idea that my position was unknown during that time - it felt freeing!
If anyone or any group should have surveillance placed on them, it's our government and all of its agencies. They are the biggest threat to the American people.
Thanks for sharing. Interesting article ~ and I've bookmarked the website for future reading.
I sold a digital mixer on Facebag Marketplace to a nice young man who made the 50-mile trip from San Francisco to my place for the purchase (evidently I underpriced it).
We got talking about cures for insomnia - we discovered we'd both begun suffering from it during the Covid lockdowns. My cure is a little electric guitar leaning against my nightstand; when I can't get back to sleep, I grab it and start playing (unplugged) laying in bed until I become sleepy enough where I drop the pick - that's when I know I can get back to sleep. It's therapeutic, and makes me a better player, at least while I'm laying down..
ANYWAY, he told me he gave in and got the jab back in '21- the first one - so he could start playing out again, but almost immediately regretted it. He told me he's had side effects from the jab - for example, he's been in the emergency room with racing heart palpitations twice in the last month. I felt so bad for him - I don't play music for a living, so I understand people who depend on playing in clubs making a tough choice just to pursue their career. I faced the same choice, but my company allowed me a religious exemption before the 5th Circuit told Biden he couldn't use OSHA to force workers to jab up. It was heartbreaking to hear this talented ~40-year-old saying he doesn't expect to make it to my age. I hope he's wrong about that.
Hi Doug! I saw you signed up on Jenna’s list of us who might want to connect. I have family in your town,and,I live in the next county south of you . So,about a half hour from you. We are bluegrass musicians and have frequent jams. Sounds like we might be around the same age group,too. We definitely are quite “like minded “.
By all means! I could use a jam! I was just riding around there last weekend - Rancho Nicasio , Bolinas, lunch in Pt. Reyes, then back up the coast to home.
I hope he's wrong too. He needs to find a naturopath (someone who didn't take the jab) and find a detox for his body. I think Zach Bush, MD created a protocol for detoxing from those vaccine shots. Or he can put him in contact with someone who did create a protocol.
Also, isn’t it weird that I just read an article that mentioned drones carrying spray paint are being utilized more and more against the flock cameras.
My actual concern about surveillance cameras is whether there is an easily-obtainable laser that will visibly make them snap, crackle, and pop to let the smoke out from at least from at least 1,000ft away while I drive around with my truck tailgate down and wearing a set of rubber glasses, nose, and mustache.
Oh yeah, and Elaine Chao is a commie spy, always has been, pass it on.
My neighborhood hoa put the question out on whether to install flocks in our neighborhood. We had some mailbox theft problems in an otherwise safe neighborhood. I was surprised at how many thought the cameras would make us ‘feel’ safer without any thought about privacy issues. I brought up the privacy thing & some neighbors wanted me to elaborate. Did my best, and so far no cameras. What we did do was pay up for locking mail boxes.
Very thought provoking. Ben Franklin is quoted "‘They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.’ It would seem to me that the Flock cameras may indeed bring safety or justice on occasion, but it's totally undermining the freedom. It might make policing easier, but the citizens don't need it. Get the FLOCK OUT :-)
“Somewhere between “the government thinks you did it” and “good luck proving you didn’t” there has to be a better answer.” Hope to find that here in the comments, honestly. You have some super smart subscribers!
On the flip side, if the surveilleurs have nothing to hide, why would they object to making the locations of each of their cameras "obvious": like mounting them with strobe lights and under brightly colored clown balloons?
I'm seeing more and more of those "tinted" license plate covers that you have almost to be standing in front of to make out the plate. My thought every time has been, "How can those be legal?" And yet. And yet...
My own idea was an industrial-strength, three-sided, license-plate "shoe box" that the plates mounts inside of, shading it from all-but-direct views. But then I thought, "When they come for me, I'll be the only one in a Crosley with a thing like 'that' on it."
I believe there’s paint you can buy that will keep your license plate from being scanned. I might need to invest. They have them in my town. They’ve just outlawed them in the neighboring town. I’ve been spending more time shopping in the neighboring town lol.
Supposedly 3M reflective tape around a license frame will defeat cameras - it's so reflective that both sunlight and the IR light they use to read your plate at night overpower the sensor. But Flock doesn't just rely on license plates - it also stores other details about the vehicle. - visual clues like bumper stickers (as in Jenna's example) and rust spots, racks and carriers, etc.
None of this matters. The license plate is one small piece of the 'footprint' to identify your vehicle. They take make, model, year, color, wheels, bumper stickers and anything else they can to make a profile of your vehicle. I don't have any legal solutions, but I can think of other solutions....
Someone will start selling magnetic mount round dots in the 3-4 inch size and move them around from time to time. Or do the neighborly thing and put them on your neighbor's car and move them around. Little sign on them explaining the purpose.
But then again, I can see they see these being stolen by other people who value their privacy.
Hmmm... Remember the "heart attack" prank? (sticking lots of hearts on someone's door as a sign of affection or gratitude)
This is the best and most important post of the month!
I definitely had to vote "all of the above"! Warrantless searches are a terrible thing, false accusations can be devastating, data breaches are *real* and invasion of privacy leads to all of the above.
Tyranny loves surveillance. Criminals love anonymity. It's rather horrible that I strongly stand on the side of the criminals. The system should have to work HARD to accuse and convict anyone.
Not to mention the ease of fake images, fake audio, fake video - you just can't trust anything anymore. This could easily spin into the inability to convict anyone because of probable doubt.
Let me repeat a comment I made on another comment:
While the Flock cameras have drawn attention. This is not a new problem, it's just getting worse.
Mass surveillance is growing. People just haven't paid much attention to the fact that our phone conversations are listened to and scanned (this has been going on for a half a century or longer!), our emails are read, our web searches are observed. We live in a fishbowl and the glass is becoming more and more transparent by the day.
And there's a new company with cameras not as obvious as Flock that's out there. They're hidden. The name escapes me. (from someone else's comment - Leonardo ELSAG)
Yep. And don't forget about all the 5G towers that look like trees or cacti either. Bet you $5 bucks every one of those fake plants have pinhole cameras to watch for people damaging the towers and whatever else they can catch, including any phone data nearby.
Embedded Streetlight & ATM Pinhole Cameras: Modular, covert units—such as the Hanwha Techwin SNB-6011 2MP Covert Camera available through Ally Security or
Disguised Pods: Portable or temporary operations utilize Covert 'Traffic Cone' Video Surveillance System technology featured on Security Today, or custom solutions like fake rocks and birdhouse enclosures hidden near roadsides - Road work nearby? There ya go.
Integrated License Plate Captures: Purpose-built, ultra-low-profile LPR systems like ELSAG LPR Covert Solutions from Leonardo Company can be installed in completely unmarked housings. Like mailbox posts, fence posts, bridge railings, power poles.
Alternatively, specialty macro-lenses can capture high-contrast video of plates while mounted in existing fixtures.
It's a game of attrition we can't win, especially with all the Data Centers going in. So, we must create some dedicated laws and rules around them and their uses.
First problem is that courts (yes lawyers and judges) are requiring video evidence. Another problem is police incompetence and misconduct. I think the Flock cameras may stand up to 4th Amendment scrutiny. But not as currently employed. Yes they should be required to get a warrant to search the database. Yes the database should be completely private and not searchable without said warrant. Police should be held accountable for jumping to conclusions. But they always do. (That’s one aspect of incompetence.) In the instant case, no one should have even accused the woman without more evidence. Questioned her at her residence maybe.
I love that people are silly string zapping them! It all reminds me of that series "Person of Interest" which aired for 5 seasons starting in 2011. Fantastic series (!) but it's all about using surveillance to stop crime, kind of a sales pitch for it actually. There's already an anti flock group in my little city and I doubt they will be installed here.
That was a great show. 'The Machine' was benevolent, calculating the risk to each person. But it got overtaken by 'Samaritan,' which had nefarious characters behind it.
I have it all on HDD's (two, for redundancy). so if it ever goes non-streaming, let me know and I'll put it on a thumb drive and either mail it from here or drop it off on the way to scope out PDC. :-)
Casting in POI was remarkable, not the least remarkable of which (whom?) was Sarah Shahi as Ms. Shaw. She had made an impression her role in the too-few-seasons of the series "Life", but POI's Ms. Shaw was something else.
I think you DO have a solution, the GOPRO strapped to our heads! Lol (That was a very vivid picture in the swamp that identifies as Marlene’s mind) 🤣😭🤣
It’s nice to see the American Revolutionary Spirit is still alive. Destroying Flock cameras is today’s version of dumping tea in Boston’s harbor. I’m also all for taking down Somali flags in front of certain Blue City Halls, during the Independence Day holiday.
That's crazy talk.
Don't we completely trust the people/systems/governments installing these cameras to do the right thing?
(I couldn't get that entire sentence out with out laughing out loud)
ditto "Stay 6 feet apart" signs that popped up everywhere in March 2020.
Oh, is it Native American day? That's the disguise du-joir for a reenactment.
Or do we go medieval on their BUTTOCKS?
Tar and feather the Flock cameras.
Hell yeah!
"It's not that I have something to hide. I have nothing I want you to see."
- Amanda Seyfried's character in the movie Anon.
Amen 🙏. My attitude is and always will be is, mind your own business, do not ever step foot on my property without my consent, and the government ( let alone anyone else) has zero right to interfere in my life. I do not require a “permit” to do anything on my land. Period. Full stop.
If I want to erect the Tower of Piza on my land, I will do so. It will not obscure anyone’s view because I have no neighbours! However, I cannot do a thing on my own damn property without first obtaining a “permit!” Yeah, that ain’t happening any time soon.
I’ll come over and help.
Love it! Love your handle, too!!
Powerful tools do indeed need powerful rules.
I’m irritated by all the delivery people taking pics of my
mailbox, then coming down our driveway which is very long. They then take 2-3 pics of the package that they usually leave TOUCHING the (mostly glass) front door. Anyone casing the joint for a robbery would take fewer pics. It feels pretty invasive.
I must admit, these pics, which they send to my email, have made me remember to water my porch plants a few times, so there’s that.
Invade people’s privacy and send those pics to Amazon/China/whoever. You never know. You may save a life— of a colossal fern.
🤣
The solution is to not allow the AI surveillance system to be built out to enslave us. The writing has been on the wall. There is no justification to allow this into a free and open society. Look at what Chinese society is like today and ask yourselves if this is what we want for ourselves and for our children.
If they want to monitor us, why don't we flip the script and monitor them? All politicians, executives of publicly traded companies, and anyone with any influence at all on a global scale should be tracked, traced, and recorded for accountabe purposes. You want to inject every American with an experimental clot shot? Then show us who exactly allowed this to happen and tell us who will be held accountability when people start to drop dead.
And require "those people" to be injected like they require of the normies. Not a good look when Congress is opted out of the very things that are mandated for non-congressional humans.
100%!
And don't get me started on 'social security'
While the Flock cameras have drawn attention. This is not a new problem, it's just getting worse.
Mass surveillance is growing. People just haven't paid much attention to the fact that our phone conversations are listened to and scanned (this has been going on for a half a century or longer!), our emails are read, our web searches are observed. We live in a fishbowl and the glass is becoming more and more transparent by the day.
It's so creepy when I have a private conversation in person, and something in that conversation ends up being in a bunch of ads on Facebook a short time later. You KNOW "they" are listening.
That has happened more times than I can count. Even in rooms where you think no device is on.
I do not carry a cell phone. I was at the home of a friend who was telling me his psychologist wife was almost done with requirements to use “Ecstasy” as a therapy. I said I wasn’t familiar with that drug,etc.. I have NEVER googled anything about this in my life,but,when I turned on my iPad,AT HOME,that same afternoon,the first thing that pops into my YouTube feed was Alex DeGrassie video titled “ Let’s explore what Ecstasy is!😳 I assume my friend cell was on ,but,how in the world did that information follow me?
Because your friend's phone had "location" turned on. On my Android phone, I turn that off for all apps except mapping apps, where my location shows up as a dot on the map when that app is turned on (I like to think...).
If their location matches the cell-tower detected location of your husband's phone, then bingo. Ads get targeted to you based on what is heard through her mic. Explainable, but very creepy, right?
Very creepy,indeed! Makes perfect sense though, because even though I don’t pack a cell,he does,and,we both have iPads. Different addresses,but,one shared “family” email… so,it lock on to HIS address and followed me that way…sheesh! Whew…
Ah, you have an iPad and an iPad has a mic...
Now that is freaky....😳
Soooo freakin freaky!
And now when I converse on email about a topic, I see ads on facebook for a product about it the next time I go there!
Yea,but,we are talking about NOT using our devices to look for something. Just TALKING together and it pulls advertising to us…there IS no privacy if you use google/ AI,or ,even,just talk…
Definitely don't use gmail. End to End encrypted (both parties use it) like Proton or Tuta mail should solve those issues.
When I checked my iPhone, I discovered that the microphone was on for 11 apps, all default on🤨
Turned them off. And I check settings more often than many other apps. 😂
Sometimes my wife and I make up ridiculous scenarios with a product imbedded in the conversation. Guess what shows up in some little advertisement a few days later?
I was prompted to act quickly last week to download my Facebook history file prior to them deleting it (I'm sure Meta wants to recover server storage and NSA already downloaded that file). It was shocking to see that all of my conversations, likes, saves, etc., have been archived - and probably sold to online marketers as well. I'm sure I'm on some list somewhere too..
Yes. For anything FREE, you can be certain YOU are the product.
The only "defense" is to hide in plain sight and hope you don't tick off the wrong person.
No cell phone (landline), 25 year old car, nothing on the cloud, never on social media, location services off, microphone and camera on Ipad off (and freqently rechecked) and electrician's tape over the camera lens. Network comes up as 'Hidden' as there are no other connections close by. While I do order on-line, it's cash anywhere in person. Doing the best I can in this Mad World.
Excellent. I think the only thing I'd add would be when traveling if you bring your iPad keep it powered off and inside a faraday bag except when you are using it.
I wrapped my phone in aluminum foil while riding around on my motorcycle for a few days last week. I liked the idea that my position was unknown during that time - it felt freeing!
I forgot to mention that part:)
Yes. Read about Room 641A:
https://www.doolly.com/blog/room-641a-infamous-government-surveillance-facility
If anyone or any group should have surveillance placed on them, it's our government and all of its agencies. They are the biggest threat to the American people.
Thanks for sharing. Interesting article ~ and I've bookmarked the website for future reading.
Agreed!
I sold a digital mixer on Facebag Marketplace to a nice young man who made the 50-mile trip from San Francisco to my place for the purchase (evidently I underpriced it).
We got talking about cures for insomnia - we discovered we'd both begun suffering from it during the Covid lockdowns. My cure is a little electric guitar leaning against my nightstand; when I can't get back to sleep, I grab it and start playing (unplugged) laying in bed until I become sleepy enough where I drop the pick - that's when I know I can get back to sleep. It's therapeutic, and makes me a better player, at least while I'm laying down..
ANYWAY, he told me he gave in and got the jab back in '21- the first one - so he could start playing out again, but almost immediately regretted it. He told me he's had side effects from the jab - for example, he's been in the emergency room with racing heart palpitations twice in the last month. I felt so bad for him - I don't play music for a living, so I understand people who depend on playing in clubs making a tough choice just to pursue their career. I faced the same choice, but my company allowed me a religious exemption before the 5th Circuit told Biden he couldn't use OSHA to force workers to jab up. It was heartbreaking to hear this talented ~40-year-old saying he doesn't expect to make it to my age. I hope he's wrong about that.
Hi Doug! I saw you signed up on Jenna’s list of us who might want to connect. I have family in your town,and,I live in the next county south of you . So,about a half hour from you. We are bluegrass musicians and have frequent jams. Sounds like we might be around the same age group,too. We definitely are quite “like minded “.
Cheers,brother! 🎶😎🎶
By all means! I could use a jam! I was just riding around there last weekend - Rancho Nicasio , Bolinas, lunch in Pt. Reyes, then back up the coast to home.
I hope he's wrong too. He needs to find a naturopath (someone who didn't take the jab) and find a detox for his body. I think Zach Bush, MD created a protocol for detoxing from those vaccine shots. Or he can put him in contact with someone who did create a protocol.
Thank you. I couldn't find Bush's protocol, but I got some other hits in my search that might help. I'll forward.
Best idea I have ever heard.
Body cams for ALL politicians as long as Flock cameras or their like are used on us!!!
Also, isn’t it weird that I just read an article that mentioned drones carrying spray paint are being utilized more and more against the flock cameras.
That sounds like a solution when the advice against 3000nm green lasers is so prevalent. (cough)
A friend of mine has a blue laser that can ignite a match - I wonder if it can disable a CCD?
Hmmm, can you light a joint with it? Asking for a friend
Probably... Never tried that!
My actual concern about surveillance cameras is whether there is an easily-obtainable laser that will visibly make them snap, crackle, and pop to let the smoke out from at least from at least 1,000ft away while I drive around with my truck tailgate down and wearing a set of rubber glasses, nose, and mustache.
Oh yeah, and Elaine Chao is a commie spy, always has been, pass it on.
Don't let America become China!
My neighborhood hoa put the question out on whether to install flocks in our neighborhood. We had some mailbox theft problems in an otherwise safe neighborhood. I was surprised at how many thought the cameras would make us ‘feel’ safer without any thought about privacy issues. I brought up the privacy thing & some neighbors wanted me to elaborate. Did my best, and so far no cameras. What we did do was pay up for locking mail boxes.
And most of those folks probably already have RING doorbell cams uploading to the cloud.
Yep!
Very thought provoking. Ben Franklin is quoted "‘They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.’ It would seem to me that the Flock cameras may indeed bring safety or justice on occasion, but it's totally undermining the freedom. It might make policing easier, but the citizens don't need it. Get the FLOCK OUT :-)
“Somewhere between “the government thinks you did it” and “good luck proving you didn’t” there has to be a better answer.” Hope to find that here in the comments, honestly. You have some super smart subscribers!
Bad ass as always! 😘🤬🍑❤️
If you recall, it was Biden himself that told America to "Buy a Shotgun" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-mztxHgYQo&list=RDF-mztxHgYQo&start_radio=1 Just saying...
Russell Schierling, One of the best video memes ever done. Had to click on your link just to see it again.🤣
That was funny!
😂
1984 reads like a how-to manual
For real.
On the flip side, if the surveilleurs have nothing to hide, why would they object to making the locations of each of their cameras "obvious": like mounting them with strobe lights and under brightly colored clown balloons?
I'm seeing more and more of those "tinted" license plate covers that you have almost to be standing in front of to make out the plate. My thought every time has been, "How can those be legal?" And yet. And yet...
My own idea was an industrial-strength, three-sided, license-plate "shoe box" that the plates mounts inside of, shading it from all-but-direct views. But then I thought, "When they come for me, I'll be the only one in a Crosley with a thing like 'that' on it."
I believe there’s paint you can buy that will keep your license plate from being scanned. I might need to invest. They have them in my town. They’ve just outlawed them in the neighboring town. I’ve been spending more time shopping in the neighboring town lol.
Really? If you find it, let us know!!!
Hmm... is it legal to spray your license plate with glitter?
"But officer, I just wanted it to be pretty!"
My grand has a ‘be-dazzler kit’. I may have to borrow it or enlist her help… 😁
🤣
We know.
Supposedly 3M reflective tape around a license frame will defeat cameras - it's so reflective that both sunlight and the IR light they use to read your plate at night overpower the sensor. But Flock doesn't just rely on license plates - it also stores other details about the vehicle. - visual clues like bumper stickers (as in Jenna's example) and rust spots, racks and carriers, etc.
Yeah, but that spray (only "some" may work) or any attempt to block your plate is illegal in many states.
Brightly colored clown balloons is good!
None of this matters. The license plate is one small piece of the 'footprint' to identify your vehicle. They take make, model, year, color, wheels, bumper stickers and anything else they can to make a profile of your vehicle. I don't have any legal solutions, but I can think of other solutions....
Someone will start selling magnetic mount round dots in the 3-4 inch size and move them around from time to time. Or do the neighborly thing and put them on your neighbor's car and move them around. Little sign on them explaining the purpose.
But then again, I can see they see these being stolen by other people who value their privacy.
Hmmm... Remember the "heart attack" prank? (sticking lots of hearts on someone's door as a sign of affection or gratitude)
I wonder if it can read a license plate if it is upside down?
This is the best and most important post of the month!
I definitely had to vote "all of the above"! Warrantless searches are a terrible thing, false accusations can be devastating, data breaches are *real* and invasion of privacy leads to all of the above.
Tyranny loves surveillance. Criminals love anonymity. It's rather horrible that I strongly stand on the side of the criminals. The system should have to work HARD to accuse and convict anyone.
Not to mention the ease of fake images, fake audio, fake video - you just can't trust anything anymore. This could easily spin into the inability to convict anyone because of probable doubt.
Let me repeat a comment I made on another comment:
While the Flock cameras have drawn attention. This is not a new problem, it's just getting worse.
Mass surveillance is growing. People just haven't paid much attention to the fact that our phone conversations are listened to and scanned (this has been going on for a half a century or longer!), our emails are read, our web searches are observed. We live in a fishbowl and the glass is becoming more and more transparent by the day.
And there's a new company with cameras not as obvious as Flock that's out there. They're hidden. The name escapes me. (from someone else's comment - Leonardo ELSAG)
Yes... every cell phone on the planet. {grin}
Yep. And don't forget about all the 5G towers that look like trees or cacti either. Bet you $5 bucks every one of those fake plants have pinhole cameras to watch for people damaging the towers and whatever else they can catch, including any phone data nearby.
Embedded Streetlight & ATM Pinhole Cameras: Modular, covert units—such as the Hanwha Techwin SNB-6011 2MP Covert Camera available through Ally Security or
WorldEyeCam—feature a tiny camera head separated from the main recording unit. They fit perfectly inside height-strip decals, data center racks, or narrow traffic enforcement boxes. Some are tiny things. https://www.worldeyecam.com/?target=search&mode=search&substring=covert%20camera&including=all
Disguised Pods: Portable or temporary operations utilize Covert 'Traffic Cone' Video Surveillance System technology featured on Security Today, or custom solutions like fake rocks and birdhouse enclosures hidden near roadsides - Road work nearby? There ya go.
Integrated License Plate Captures: Purpose-built, ultra-low-profile LPR systems like ELSAG LPR Covert Solutions from Leonardo Company can be installed in completely unmarked housings. Like mailbox posts, fence posts, bridge railings, power poles.
Alternatively, specialty macro-lenses can capture high-contrast video of plates while mounted in existing fixtures.
It's a game of attrition we can't win, especially with all the Data Centers going in. So, we must create some dedicated laws and rules around them and their uses.
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Larry Fink was deathly afraid of data centers being hit with explosives delivered with drones.
First problem is that courts (yes lawyers and judges) are requiring video evidence. Another problem is police incompetence and misconduct. I think the Flock cameras may stand up to 4th Amendment scrutiny. But not as currently employed. Yes they should be required to get a warrant to search the database. Yes the database should be completely private and not searchable without said warrant. Police should be held accountable for jumping to conclusions. But they always do. (That’s one aspect of incompetence.) In the instant case, no one should have even accused the woman without more evidence. Questioned her at her residence maybe.
valid points
I love that people are silly string zapping them! It all reminds me of that series "Person of Interest" which aired for 5 seasons starting in 2011. Fantastic series (!) but it's all about using surveillance to stop crime, kind of a sales pitch for it actually. There's already an anti flock group in my little city and I doubt they will be installed here.
That was a great show. 'The Machine' was benevolent, calculating the risk to each person. But it got overtaken by 'Samaritan,' which had nefarious characters behind it.
It might be my favorite TV series EVER. It's still available on Netflix and Amazon fire stick.
I have it all on HDD's (two, for redundancy). so if it ever goes non-streaming, let me know and I'll put it on a thumb drive and either mail it from here or drop it off on the way to scope out PDC. :-)
Thank you! 💕
My son and I refer to a shortened name for it: "PInterest"
That was one of my favorite shows! Plus, Jim Caviezel.♥
he is so good in it!
Casting in POI was remarkable, not the least remarkable of which (whom?) was Sarah Shahi as Ms. Shaw. She had made an impression her role in the too-few-seasons of the series "Life", but POI's Ms. Shaw was something else.
That was one of my favorite shows! Plus, Jim Caviezel.♥
That was one of my favorite shows! Plus, Jim Caviezel.♥
I think you DO have a solution, the GOPRO strapped to our heads! Lol (That was a very vivid picture in the swamp that identifies as Marlene’s mind) 🤣😭🤣
Why does "This is for your own good" always remind me of the foreplay of a rapist?
Most cities already have taxpayer funded surveillance video cameras. Don’t y’all watch homicide shows?