What are flock cameras?
How Romantic
Submitted 1 day ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to [deleted]
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grranibal@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
obvs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you’re in the U.S. you’ve probably seen them in grocery store parking lots. They typically are like a trailer hitch with a bunch of solar panels on it, and then a pole, and a multi-directional camera on the very top of the pole, with a blinking light. I’m colorblind, but I think the light is blue.
They claim to be for the security of the business, but what they do is to monitor all license plates and all cars that come into a given area(and they can identify the same car even if the license plate is changed).
And I wouldn’t have so much of a problem with that if individual businesses wanted to have closed-circuit video for their parking lot, but these things are networked nationwide, so this company can track the exact location of your car nationwide, each and every time one of your cars drives by these things.
The operation of these things should be a felony, and it makes sense that people are destroying them now. I completely understand why.
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I thought they started getting destroyed because they implemented facial recognition and agreed to collude with ICE to track dark-skinned folk
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day ago
They typically are like a trailer hitch with a bunch of solar panels on it, and then a pole, and a multi-directional camera on the very top of the pole, with a blinking light. I’m colorblind, but I think the light is blue.
That’s one version of surveillance, but I don’t think it’s from Flock. That’s a different company (though no less worthy of destruction).
Flock cameras look like this:
While they’re sometimes seen in parking lots (especially entrances and exits), they’re typically installed on the side of the road in seemingly random places.
joyjoy@piefed.social 1 day ago
That’s what those are?!
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Police state surveillance tech, used to track people and their locations using facial recognition.
Amdouni@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Even police stations have to pay a scription to use it I think
Voyajer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Benn Jordan on YouTube has a set of videos detailing everything about them
lavenderbreton@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
You know what? Hell yeah.
mrunicornman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Never seen the bottom photo before. It’s a sweet set of photos.
Mountainaire@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wonder if it’s generated. Look at the guy’s left hand in the bottom right.
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yes it’s ai generated and still only 10 pixels
darthsundhaft@piefed.social 1 day ago
I have legit never seen the other frame for this couple.
Also, eat your heart out couplememes comm.
khepri@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just remember to never ever buy a high-powered blue laser pointer, which sadly are easily available many places online, because were you to do that, and accidentally turn it on while it was pointed at, say, a camera sensor, you could permanently damage that sensor and make it unusable!
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
There was a study that showed these don’t actually work.
But I agree with your sentiment. Definitely do not cut them down or pull on their wiring and take any copper/solar panels that you can resell.
redsand@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Some favorites: Crack heads looting batteries, pharaoh ants, high power green and IR lasers, city maintenance crews, a reflective vest and tools, mirrors, geeks looting batteries and raspberry pis, hacking to spy on law enforcement and the city council…
ickplant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If I found out my husband destroyed a flock camera I’d fuck him three times harder than I normally do.
qwertyasdf@feddit.uk 1 day ago
What would you do if he destroyed 2?
ickplant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fuck, I can only get so wet in the morning… blowjobs for days!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m going to pretend that you’re my wife and go buy a laser