Laut Bericht wurden mehrere Polizisten verhaftet, weil sie das umstrittene Nummernschildlesesystem Flock AI zur Verfolgung romantischer Partner eingesetzt hatten – Ermittler haben in den letzten Jahren in den USA mindestens 18 solcher Fälle aufgedeckt
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/security-software/several-police-officers-arrested-for-using-controversial-flock-ai-license-plate-reader-system-to-stalk-romantic-partners-says-report-investigators-have-unearthed-at-least-18-such-cases-in-the-us-over-recent-years
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Ben Franklin once said some akin to „those who value security over freedom deserve neither.“
Imagine what they do with Palantir
Bad cop no donut
I call BS, they don’t hold cops accountable for their actions.
„we have internal safeguards“ means nothing if the safeguard is „we hope the officers don’t abuse it and trust them to write an honest reason in the search box.“
As expected
They had to put measures into the government systems so that there was a record of the ID/login of anyone who looked up motor vehicle and license registrations in the government system in reaction to the same sorts of abuses.
The fact that this private system with its promised safeguards is now showing the same abuses popping up should surprise nobody.
Future detectives
The US militarized its police forces years ago. What’s the worst that could happen when we give unchecked murder-power to men with about as much training as call-center representatives? Let’s give them some killer-robots and the ability to track whoever they want without a warrant whenever they want, maybe they’ll behave better.
Just wait until we learn about the predators in the police departments and employees of Flock itself which are using them to find victims.
It’s happening. Guaranteed.
What could go wrong … they never bothered to ask
This explains why my sister’s friends have a rule not to get romantically involved with cops.
Can you imagine the terror of having a stalker in law enforcement?
your punishment is
paid time off
Only 18 huh? Sure.
Every LEO I’ve met has at some point bragged about abusing background checks
Say it ain’t so
Pretty much every single cop misuses resources and not just to stalk their romantic partners but to watch their kids, family, enemies, etc.
I knew a state cop that openly talked about it and have a few friends who were stalked. One wasn’t even the cop’s ex, it was a male friend of the ex. He never met the cop and was pretty sure he was deployed their entire relationship. We don’t know if he just fixated on him or if he was just doing it to every guy in her life.
*”…to serve and protect…”*
Isn’t there like a whole thing where a guy is going back and forth with flock and challenging them to take an independent security audit because he FOIAd information and found out that several people from flock were straight up peeking in at youth gymnastics classes and stuff?
This whole system feels inherently ripe for abuse because it operates on a „no….police and private security companies would NEVER overreach!“ basis.
Duhdoay. Next they’ll sell it to your insurance company so they can raise rates
Oh damn, the things people were worried about is happening. Time for another distraction.
I for one, am wholly shocked that mass surveillance systems are being abused by the worst scum imaginable. Who could have seen this coming?
But hey, at least we can hope those weird creeps will get punished with a nice paid vacation only to be quietly back on the force once this blows over.
/s if it wasn’t obvious.
Ray Charles could see that and more. Those cameras need to go.
Police abusing their power? I just can’t believe that….
That’s what they’re doing instead of their jobs.
This is who they want to give your tracked online data to for the sake of “child safety”
Almost like everybody fucking predicted this would happen
It’s happened a million times at intelligence agencies
Wow, cops abusing their power?!??
Who could’ve predicted that? 🤣😂
Remember when people said about surveillance being used in dangerous ways and others said „ohh that won’t happen“
It’s happening…
Huh, I thought Flock was only used to solve crimes. 🤔
Flock would say that these people getting caught means the system is working.
I’ve heard a rep actually say this. But don’t be fooled.
That this can happen means there are people not getting caught, because they have the technology to do so in the first place.
What does it say that I think 18 is low, I thought this was happening far more often
Oh wow not one person predicted this.
Doesn’t this always happen with surveillance shit? They always catch jilted lovers or jealous exes using the software to stalk and spy.
18? Yeah right. Add a zero or two…
I’m surprised that the number is so low. I’m sure it would be greater
Color me shocked
Just 18? I had a friend that had dated a cop, when she drove to the city she would park about 4-5 miles from the downtown area when she went out drinking. Her ex and his police officer coworkers would keep tabs on her whenever they saw her car. This happened many years before flock, and it will continue to occur even if all flock cameras come down. Cops are rarely held accountable for their actions
Completely unsurprising. PDs worldwide harbour abusers and are able to get away with their crimes.
My friend just got picked up on mistaken identity shoplifting in Atlanta.
Fun facts Georgia carries up to 12 months in jail for MISDEMEANOR shoplifting. But likely some Algorithm screwed up and said he was someone he wasn’t and now he’s zero resources needing to fight this from prison.
He just got out of a hospital stay lasting from March, but I guess taxpayers will now pay for him to sit in jail. I’m sure GEO group will be happy to take your money and keep using these systems.
Btw 1% of Georgia population is currently in jail and 40% of Georgia residents have some criminal record.
But keep on supporting this bullshit
Oh let’s not get started on them tracking BLM protestors that committed no crime.
The police abusing their access privileges? No way. Can’t be true.
As someone who grew up with a stepfather who worked on the force….yeah, no fucking shit. This pos would come home and gloat about „so-and-so’s bitch wife tried to take his kids, and she’s dumb enough not to remove the plates. He found her within a day. Bitch.“
Never laid his hands on me, but did on my sibling. That day ended poorly for everyone. And then years later, he got pulled over and arrested for DUI, TWICE, in three days – as an acting member of the force. Think about how hard it is to get any cop to „turn“ on their own, and you can imagine how drunk he was.
Any person who has known a cop personally, saw this coming 5 lightyears away.
I’m shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
This just cements the need for these records to be behind a firewall of sorts, and NOT stored by/accessible to a Private Company.
An officer/detective/investigator who needs records would have to request them from a person with access, and in doing so, ID themselves & state a qualified need for the records.
The ppl with access would not be in or part of the local PD, it would be a State agency/dept.
Punishment for abusive or illegal access should be immediate removal from the force, permanent loss of police certification nationwide, and loss of the right to own a firearm.