Dissecting Flock Safety: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare [video]

These cameras are showing up everywhere in my state. It's creepy. I had no idea what they were, and now suddenly they're at every intersection, gas station, you name it.

I don't like that the government is tracking everyone's movements so openly. I knew they were doing this with cell phone data, but that wasn't so brazen.

Here was the CEO back in 2017:

"Alexro, there are clear and large signs about the cameras at the entrance to our neighborhoods.

"Our neighborhoods are not large public roads, they are typically 100-400 home communities. You would never have to enter the community."

Now, it's clear that the cameras are not always obviously marked, they are not always in small communities, and they are often now on public thoroughfares. i go past at least one every day and it is not within a subdivision, rather it's on a main thoroughfare. It is marked, but a sign that is readable at 5 MPH is not necessarily readable at 35 MPH. It doesn't help to mark it "Flock" because I don't know who it is for.

Presumably, someone who has permission to the data can use it for legitimate investigations. Or they can use it for illicit investigations. Or share it with others for their own investigations. Or exchange it for other data they care about. And since we're not the "customer", what can we do about it? We're the target.

I take down scam bandit signs [0]. Since I noticed the Flock signs in one neighborhood, I no longer enter that neighborhood to take down the scam bandit signs.

[0] "Text us to see if you qaulify for (some non-existent) government program to get free (things)"

I hope that neighborhood enjoys the flock cameras more than the visual blight and their neighbors getting scammed.