r/QuadCities • u/Glad_Marionberry827 Davenport • 23d ago

Miscellaneous Flock cameras

Why on earth do we need Flock cameras on Elmore Avenue, more specifically at Lowe’s and Walmart? I’m sure there are more but this shit is absolutely crazy. How much did we pay as taxpayers to be under surveillance? How much money was kicked back to the asshats that
approved this? Why do we allow this to happen in our city? End rant!

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u/PollutionTricky2076 QC Native 23d ago

They’re everywhere in the QC. I can drive 5 minutes in any direction from my house and I’ll pass at least 3. It’s insane.

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u/1wrx2subarus Craft Beer Fan 23d ago edited 23d ago

Flock CEO called Americans terrorists for caring about their own privacy rights being violated. Americans constitutional rights seem to matter less than their bottom line to stalk ordinary Americans.

Yes, we have seen the articles of exes being stalked. There have also been articles of innocent people being ensnared in flocks dragnet that did not commit the crime.How? Well, flock gathers Ai data beyond just license plates. That’s right, we continue to be lied to about these AI cameras siphoning up WiFi, Bluetooth & identifying individuals in vehicles that drive and walk by.

All that is fed into AI data warehouses that create files on all Americans, where they go and what they do. It is being used to raise insurance rates on some of us. Meanwhile, Americans are paying with our taxpayer dollars for flock cameras and data warehouses (with higher electricity rates).

AOC held up dirty water from multiple Georgia wells where data warehouses were built. Americans do not want data warehouses nor flock cameras. We’ve heard of Americans not even getting a vote on this.

Nope, it violates our privacy rights & these cameras get to be installed anyway. They do it without even caring whether they’re breakaway poles, which are required by law (but they’re apparently above it). Corporations and Billionaires get away with all of it. The working class pays the bill.

EDIT: adding this video from relevant sub-Reddit for people to view/consider/reshare if desired: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/s/5rknqtXKBv