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Um, so? What am I missing here? You're in a public place with no expectation of privacy.
Public streaming webcams have been a thing for three decades. There's even an entire Geocaching category where you must be captured to prove you were there.
Most of those public streaming cams are streaming to a private server, and not 40k cameras contributing to the same global database. They're also not being tracked with AI and storing license plate numbers, facial recognition, etc. to be categorized and later searched by law enforcement for, whatever reason they want.
alot of those red light and speed camera in west coast is most likely using AI and facial recognition, these are 3rd party doing it.
This gotta be bait
This is ai-tracking is equivalent to having a government agent following you 24/7
You're not doing anything wrong, so why are you worried the police is trailing your every move? amirite?
It is kinda insane. I mean if someone was standing outside their window with a notepad writing down everything they see and hear people would be creeped the fuck out. But put a camera there and the same asshole is sitting on a computer desk in a different city they are ok with?
Also the notepad guy is immediately faxing their notes directly to the police and any advertising data brokers who ask for them
For your detractors, I'd like to point out that nothing stated here in untrue.
The problem is feeding 10's of thousands of video streams, from a single entity, to the police and government. And now they're using AI to sort the data, which is a powerful use case for AI.
Were we to magically feed all the webcams and doorbells and security cameras to a single source, it would still be a technological mess to sort out. Flock's system is purpose built to track us.
WTF I love big brother now