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- JKCalhounLicense plate reader?So the device should require very specific license plates to scan for—not the current dragnet. The software should only "ping" when there is a confident match with said license plate(s)—and merely log which license plate, time stamp a single photo, and note the confidence level of it being a match.The frame buffer should be the only place (a frame of) video is ever stored at all (excepting the high-confidence match indicated above).The only issue remaining would be whether we trust the device/software to have complied (and not have a backdoor) and of course there needs to be a legal warrant for every license plate uploaded (and it should expire fairly frequently, likely requiring a new warrant to continue canning for the plate).
- sippingabonedry"Flock is mass surveillance", say people who are posting Ring doorbell footage on Reddit for the 50th time, trying to gangstalk the guy who stole the mail order coffee beans off their porch.
- joshheitzmanYes, that's what they are. But does that mean are they breaking federal law or unconstitutional? I believe we've been told by the courts repeatedly that we should have no expectation of privacy out in public.
- hypfer> The deputy then used the woman’s travel history in Flock as part of the justification for searching her car, where he allegedly discovered 91 pounds of meth.That sentence does make this less of a win tbh, given that with it, it's just an actual example of the technology doing the job it is supposed to do.Like this, it's almost a trojan horse of something pretending to be PR for A, but actually being effective PR for B.
- PunchyHamsterso just like anyone else except people profiting or abusing it
- kylepomykalaI'm honestly kind of surprised it took this long.
- moralestapiaThat's exactly what it is. Great news.I don't think we can backtrack at this point but at least it should be heavily regulated and restricted (i.e. only run queries if there's a court order, etc).
- alexnewmanI think i'm like the last person who's still defending flock. This is as a result of living with very small women for years who were constantly attacked in the streets. This basically ended with surveillance. That being said, I would prefer actual police on every block with crime.
- charcircuitWhat you do on public roads is public.The idea that law enforcement tapping into existing law enforcement knowledge constitutes as a search of "persons, houses, papers, and effects" does not logically follow for me. It is a search of law enforcements own property.
- qwe----3TBH the words of an individual judge shouldn't mean too much now -> they are obviously very political judges now.