🔎 🇺🇸 🚗 Flock Safety’s AI cameras are scanning 20 billion license plates every month, giving police the power to track any vehicle’s movements across cities and jurisdictions in seconds.
The system doesn’t just read plates — it logs color, make, model, and details like bumper stickers or gun racks, then stores everything in a searchable cloud database.
Police can reconstruct travel history, set alerts, and pull data from other agencies. The company says it played a role in about 1 million arrests last year and many police chiefs call it their most impactful tool ever.
But this mass data collection is sparking a major backlash over privacy and the 4th Amendment. Critics argue it’s indiscriminate surveillance of everyone’s movements — not targeted policing — creating a permanent dragnet of innocent drivers without warrants.
Flock claims no facial recognition is used and data is deleted after 30 days by default, with some safeguards in place. This may be true today, but we do not trust the safeguards, today perhaps they use safeguards....but we know government. This tool will be used for facial recognition and data used against innocent U S Citizens. This is big brother at this worse.
Still, the core issue remains: constant tracking of every vehicle on public roads without suspicion.
This is a violation of the 4th Amendment.
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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 US CENTCOM:
At 5:45 p.m. ET today, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East. All Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted. U.S. forces remain vigilant and at a high state of readiness.
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The argument by law enforcement that Flock cameras help solve crimes could be used to argue in favor of any form of mass electronic surveillance. A system whereby the movements and actions of every man, woman and child in the United States is tracked electronically at all times would virtually eliminate all crime in this country.
Nobody is seriously advocating for an AI system to watch every human being, 24 hours a day, in their public and private lives—even though it would end or at least catch all crime—because as a society, stopping or catching crime is not our only priority. It's the only priority of law enforcement, but we don't live in a "cop"-ocracy. If every citizen lived in cells like on Alcatraz instead of private homes, that would also help prevent crime!
"Oh, but even though we're going to collect all the data, we're going to put in safeguards so it can't be used by bad actors!"
Well that same justification could be used to justify the AI skynet watching all people at ...
THE COST OF THE AMERICAN DREAM HAS EXPLODED.
Owning a home.
Buying groceries.
Driving to work.
Paying insurance.
Even your morning coffee.
Nearly every major household expense costs dramatically more than it did just a few years ago.
Over the last 7 years:
• Coffee: +127%
• Home prices: +60%
• Auto insurance: +51%
• Gasoline: +49%
• Electricity: +44%
• Shelter: +35%
• Groceries: +33%
And that's before paying for healthcare, transportation, or eating out.
This is why so many families feel like they're falling behind even when they get a raise.
The biggest financial problem for millions of Americans is that everything is going up at the same time, while the government keeps showing a 2% inflation target.
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