Re:How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protes...
by tptacek on Friday November 21, 2025 @03:20PM
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These cameras don't use LLMs. The "AI" we're talking about is machine learning models for identifying and OCR'ing license plates and car models.
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Re:How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protes...
by ranon on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @11:57PM
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Flock Safety is a lot more than ALPR. They just try to fit in as an ALPR because those have been used for years. They do use their video feed to find unique identifiers of vehicles, such as dents, mods, color, make, model, etc. It's also highly likely they are doing facial recognition at some locations. I do not believe they are doing gait recognition yet for pedestrians, but it's just a matter of time.
Re:How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protes...
by tptacek on Thursday November 27, 2025 @12:22AM
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I'm pretty familiar with the capabilities Flock actually offers law enforcement agencies, and it's license plates, makes, models, colors, and some identifying characteristics. This stuff isn't an abstraction, I don't have to reason about it axiomatically; you can directly engage with your local municipal government to see what's going on here.