This is indeed a success for the EFF, but the bigger picture that everyone should see is that #Flock’s mission isn’t just reading license plates; it’s TOTAL SURVEILLANCE. They want to monitor everyone’s public presence and activities, and make it searchable for a fee.

Not only that, they want to insert automation that will INTERPRET what their sensors receive and draw CONCLUSIONS that can then lead to serious consequences to those surveilled. They want to be the arbiters of what “acceptable” public behavior looks like.

It’s not an overstatement that Flock’s mission is a threat to our liberty. We must resist this kind of overreach.

#FuckFlock #deFlock #surveillance

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Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices

Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify signs of “human di…

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