munkle
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You think the those new gargantuan AI data centers are about maintaining US leadership in AI versus China? LOL. This what they are really for. To store terabytes and of data on your daily activities. Today it's license plate readers on city property for automatic ticketing of alleged traffic violations with no due process ( who hasn't fought a parking or speeding ticket that they knew was wrong?) But tomorrow much more serious, a total mass surveillance Big Brother society, which uses "facial recognition" to convict innocent people. And what could go wrong? Already police chiefs and cops have been accused of using the AI cameras to stalk ex-girlfriends and wives, and harass personal enemies.
"Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang pulled Cambridge’s Flock surveillance camera contract as a result of the December 9th Public Safety Meeting. Thanks to everyone who spoke out against these cameras and to Digital 4th and the ACLU for their efforts on this issue. "
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Futurism: "Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse"
"Since the start of 2025, at least 30 cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety, the AI surveillance company whose CEO wants to end all crime within the decade by blanketing the country in ever-watchful security cameras.
That startling figure comes courtesy of NPR, which reports that concerned activists are putting mounting pressure on cities to cut ties with the company.
“We are seeing a lot more momentum,” Will Freeman, a Colorado-based organizer who runs the website DeFlock.org, told the broadcaster. “I expect there to be more cities dropping Flock.”
The grassroots campaigns have successfully booted Flock from cities like Flagstaff, Arizona, Eugene Oregon, and Santa Cruz, California.
“In the end, it was just clear that this wasn’t going to be a technology that was going to be well received or that we could continue to use,” Flagstaff mayor Becky Daggett told NPR, reflecting on community outrage over the devices.
DeFlock is an open-source web app designed to track license plate readers throughout the United States. While Flock is the biggest, it’s not the only surveillance vendor tracked by DeFlock, which currently has over 77,000 AI license plate readers logged on its interactive map."
Denver City Council Meeting on Flock Surveillance Cameras
BBC reporter tests China surveillance system
local12.com
apnews.com
"Angela Lipps says she had never been to North Dakota. She says she had never even been on an airplane. That didn't stop the U.S. marshals from showing up at her home in Tennessee and arresting her.
Lipps, a 50-year-old grandmother of five from Elizabethton, Tennessee, was taken into custody in July 2025 in connection with a bank fraud case more than 1,000 miles away in Fargo, North Dakota. She was not released until around Christmas Eve, meaning she spent more than five months in custody before the case was dismissed.
Investigators had used facial recognition software to compare surveillance images from the bank fraud case with photos of Lipps from her driver's license and social media. The result, according to her defense attorney, was a case that never should have gone this far. "
www.aclu-wi.org
"Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang pulled Cambridge’s Flock surveillance camera contract as a result of the December 9th Public Safety Meeting. Thanks to everyone who spoke out against these cameras and to Digital 4th and the ACLU for their efforts on this issue. "
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Futurism: "Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse"
"Since the start of 2025, at least 30 cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety, the AI surveillance company whose CEO wants to end all crime within the decade by blanketing the country in ever-watchful security cameras.
That startling figure comes courtesy of NPR, which reports that concerned activists are putting mounting pressure on cities to cut ties with the company.
“We are seeing a lot more momentum,” Will Freeman, a Colorado-based organizer who runs the website DeFlock.org, told the broadcaster. “I expect there to be more cities dropping Flock.”
The grassroots campaigns have successfully booted Flock from cities like Flagstaff, Arizona, Eugene Oregon, and Santa Cruz, California.
“In the end, it was just clear that this wasn’t going to be a technology that was going to be well received or that we could continue to use,” Flagstaff mayor Becky Daggett told NPR, reflecting on community outrage over the devices.
DeFlock is an open-source web app designed to track license plate readers throughout the United States. While Flock is the biggest, it’s not the only surveillance vendor tracked by DeFlock, which currently has over 77,000 AI license plate readers logged on its interactive map."
What's this mass surveillance program?
Denver City Council Meeting on Flock Surveillance Cameras
BBC reporter tests China surveillance system
Police chief gets caught using license plate cameras to track his ex-girlfriend 228 times
A police chief used cameras 228 times over four-plus months to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend's vehicles.
local12.com
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.
apnews.com
"Angela Lipps says she had never been to North Dakota. She says she had never even been on an airplane. That didn't stop the U.S. marshals from showing up at her home in Tennessee and arresting her.
Lipps, a 50-year-old grandmother of five from Elizabethton, Tennessee, was taken into custody in July 2025 in connection with a bank fraud case more than 1,000 miles away in Fargo, North Dakota. She was not released until around Christmas Eve, meaning she spent more than five months in custody before the case was dismissed.
Investigators had used facial recognition software to compare surveillance images from the bank fraud case with photos of Lipps from her driver's license and social media. The result, according to her defense attorney, was a case that never should have gone this far. "
Police Surveillance is Ripe for Abuse - ACLU of Wisconsin
Greenfield police chief allegedly weaponizes surveillance camera in divorce — BIG red flag.
www.aclu-wi.org
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