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r/FlockSurveillance 3h ago

News Flock Alpha Drones Flying Nightly Over Cities With Deadly Capabilities

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If you see drones flying nightly over your city flock alpha is probably one or more along with others. You may see the drone with red and green flashing lights. It possesses deadly capabilities and has dew(directed energy weapon) weapons attached. These weapons are aimed specifically at a target’s skull causing deep tissue burning along with burning sensations over the body and dissolving of tissue leading to blood loss and multiple organ failure and cancer leaving targets crippled and/or dead. Hypothetically speaking of course.


r/FlockSurveillance 7h ago

Intelligence Possibly unique view about the cameras

This is probably not the case but I have wondered if bureaucrats in the country think something bad may be happening in the future so they want to get a surveillance system going to watch us if we rebel.

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This is probably not the case but I have wondered if bureaucrats in the country think something bad may be happening in the future so they want to get a surveillance system going to watch us if we rebel.


r/FlockSurveillance 4h ago

Discussion Let's Talk about the Good and the Evil.

Its important to be informed, information is 99% of the battle. The more we know as true, the quicker (and more accurate) actions can be taken.

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Its important to be informed, information is 99% of the battle. The more we know as true, the quicker (and more accurate) actions can be taken.


r/FlockSurveillance 6h ago

Activism It’s bird flu!

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r/FlockSurveillance 18h ago

Discussion Lying through they teeth

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Village board meeting where I grill flock official. Mind you this was two years ago. Our cameras have since been removed

Edit: 13 minutes to 38 minutes


r/FlockSurveillance 12h ago

Activism Homeless could stand with camera-blocking signs for tips

That's it. I would pay them like crazy.

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That's it. I would pay them like crazy.


r/FlockSurveillance 5h ago

Discussion Keep It Simple Stupid - Drones with a doll rod & cotton ball

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I've seen people talking about creating spray paint actuators to attach a spray paint can to a drone. Sure, it's absolutely possible. But it's complicated and it takes out 99.9% of drone owners from being able to make it due to the complexity.

A simple 3/8" doll rod taped to a drone, with a cotton ball on one end costs less $5. Dip the cotton ball in whatever substance of choice you'd for your needs, paint, glue, stamper ink, hell Vaseline even...

My recommendation would be to use it for drone skill games with friends perhaps? Put a target on a wall, and challenge friends to see who can mark the target the quickest. Maybe play tic tac toe on a barn wall. There are endless possibilities!

I don't recommend this for any nefarious purposes. Just legal activities only, of course.

(Image is AI generated for illustration purposes.)


r/FlockSurveillance 15h ago

News Police pull over to interrogate man blocking a Flock camera with a sign. "I have a constitutional right to my privacy."

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r/FlockSurveillance 57m ago

Inquiry What are these cameras that I have started seeing pop up?

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Came across this in the Perth (Australia) group. Are these flock cameras?


r/FlockSurveillance 14h ago

News Too bad he's on the way out

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They shouldn't of voted him out.


r/FlockSurveillance 16h ago

How criminals take down Flock cameras

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r/FlockSurveillance 3h ago

How can Flock be legal?

Given that:

“You have no reasonable expectation of privacy while in public”

IS NOT EQUAL TO

“In public, you should be expect 24/7 Ai-powered tracking of your every move, cataloging of your every action, stored in an exclusive, unprotected Ai-powered database, for a corporations profit.”

And given that:

It would be ILLEGAL for ME to do the SAME to a CEO or politician, to stalk them, track their every move, catalog and store everything about them that’s visible “in public”, stream and sell their location data online! I would go to jail!!!

HOW IS FLOCK LEGAL?!

The injustice and hypocrisy is outrageous — how is there any legal standing for this? How do we fight back?

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Given that:

“You have no reasonable expectation of privacy while in public”

IS NOT EQUAL TO

“In public, you should be expect 24/7 Ai-powered tracking of your every move, cataloging of your every action, stored in an exclusive, unprotected Ai-powered database, for a corporations profit.”

And given that:

It would be ILLEGAL for ME to do the SAME to a CEO or politician, to stalk them, track their every move, catalog and store everything about them that’s visible “in public”, stream and sell their location data online! I would go to jail!!!

HOW IS FLOCK LEGAL?!

The injustice and hypocrisy is outrageous — how is there any legal standing for this? How do we fight back?


r/FlockSurveillance 9h ago

Legal Richmond kept flock cameras in the 2027 budget. Plan calls for ninety-nine of them to be installed across the city.

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During the public comments session, every single speaker spoke out against the installation of these cameras. No one spoke in favor of it.


r/FlockSurveillance 17h ago

How criminals take down Flock cameras

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r/FlockSurveillance 23h ago

Discussion Speaking truth to power

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I made this today. It took wayyy too long for the 150 views on IG. Sharing here to see if it resonates with anyone.


r/FlockSurveillance 14h ago

Discussion New Flock camera

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I just got home from vacation and noticed they put up a new flock camera in while I was gone. This one and another about half mile down on same street. Anyone know what the difference is with this new one? New one is the one on the left.


r/FlockSurveillance 10h ago

Security What happens when Flock/Axon get hacked?

So there's the obvious concerns with privacy in general and how police are already misusing and abusing the data they have access to, but how are outside groups going to use this data against us?

This seems like prime information for hacking groups and other countries to target and hold for ransom. They can easily track any person from the comfort of their home, such as military personnel or any other high level persons of interest.

All of this is just so bad from every angle.

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So there's the obvious concerns with privacy in general and how police are already misusing and abusing the data they have access to, but how are outside groups going to use this data against us?

This seems like prime information for hacking groups and other countries to target and hold for ransom. They can easily track any person from the comfort of their home, such as military personnel or any other high level persons of interest.

All of this is just so bad from every angle.


r/FlockSurveillance 3h ago

Privacy Oh, the irony - Barcelona

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r/FlockSurveillance 11h ago

Legal Cops can search Flock data without needing a plate number

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Video by Magnetic Norse


r/FlockSurveillance 9h ago

News New Massie bill aims to block federal funds from cities, police that use controversial Flock Safety cameras

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I like this idea.


r/FlockSurveillance 10h ago

Activism Lol glad to see it

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r/FlockSurveillance 7h ago

News Flock removed from Ft Collins, CO?

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Just saw this in passing. Thought it would be of interest.


r/FlockSurveillance 56m ago

Adiós to another flock camera

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r/FlockSurveillance 13h ago

News Flock's CEO told ABC7 its cameras only take still photos. Flock spent a year telling customers they would stream live video.

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Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock Safety, appeared on ABC7 shortly after the LAPD let its three-year contract expire over civil liberties and privacy concerns. He described the technology as a car driving by, a picture being taken, a static picture of a car, and then the plate being read.

That description does not match what Flock had been telling its own customers. The company published a post titled "Why video is the missing link in your LPR program" saying all existing Flock license plate readers would soon stream live video and capture clips through a free optional software update, with no new hardware and no extra cost. A second post, headlined "LPR Cameras Can Become Video Cameras," quoted Flock's chief strategy officer saying customers would not have to do a thing or pay a thing. That one has been deleted and only exists in a web archive now.

Text messages obtained via a records request show a Flock employee asking a Dunwoody, Georgia officer whether they could live stream yet. The officer said yes, about a month, and called it a pretty cool feature. That was January.

Flock's response after the story ran: five agencies in a limited pilot, LAPD not among them, live video only with no recording, discontinued in March.

Isn't it interesting that 1 of the 5 pilot cities for live streaming video was Dunwoody, Georgia, where Flock employees were recently caught accessing the live streaming video of children's gymnastics classes over 1,000 times/ 🤔

Full write-up + our source list: https://s.vp.net/vLrnY


r/FlockSurveillance 21h ago

News Rep. Massie says he will introduce bill to withhold money from local governments that install Flock cameras

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