The Flock Cameras Problem Is Getting Worse

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They capture the make, model, color, license plate numbers, the cars that pass by, and the date, the time, and the location of detection. And you've got flocks saying, "Hey, they're made to help communities respond to crime and safety incidents by helping recover stolen vehicles, a police investigations, and just so much more." But then you've got just so many critics arguing that these are tools of just a surveillance state, with, for example, the ACLU explaining, "If there are flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging, and sharing your movements without a warrant." Or because you have this situation where when one flock camera detects a vehicle, that information stored in flock system and can be searched by participating in law enforcement agencies anywhere. Right, not just by officials in your town or even your state, but at any agency with a flock contract allowing this level of access. And while flock, they're not the only company creating and deploying this kind of technology, they are by far the most prominent and well-known. They capture 20 billion license plate reads per month across 6,000 communities, and you've got the ACLU estimating that between 80 to 100,000 of these cameras are installed in both urban and rural areas throughout the country. But also, I'll tell you that by the time that you're just even done watching this video, there might be one or two less in this country. And that's because of the rapid rate that you're seeing these things getting vandalized. Right, you're seeing things like over in Avon, Colorado, you're the police poster about felony criminal mischief after three cameras, including a flock camera, were knocked down and destroyed. And the reason I bring up that one specifically is because on the post where they asked the community for any information, they ended up getting 18,000 comments, but not from people that were like, "Hey, I want to help," or rather just from so many people who were expressing their frustration with flock surveillance and even people actively supporting the destruction. And then you're seeing things like a guy in the Minneapolis area, he's gone viral for posting videos about how he's climbed up polls and take down dozens of flock cameras in his state. He's even posted content teaching others how to do the same. That in California, he had some thrown pain on him, others accused his straight up running them over with their cars. And it's all over in Florida. They've also been hit with spray paint in New York. They've been sawed in half in New Mexico. A guy was accused of destroying multiple cameras and they were replacing them with flags. And there, even after a judge said that she would issue an arrest warrant, he told the local news. You have plans to continue to take down these flock cameras. Absolutely. No, absolutely. And you should understand, this is just a small sampling of a nationwide trend, right? This is happening in tons of states. So not everything is so destructive, right? You have some just trying to raise awareness that these cameras exist at all. So you've got people like in Florida, there's this 77 year old man who camps out in front of these cameras in a lawn chair while holding up a big sign to block the lens and protest. And also to highlight how widespread flock tools are, many have turned to a site called Deflot. And it has this interactive map tracking all kinds of automatic license plate readers. The site's creator telling the Wall Street Journal that overall, I don't think the government should know where we are all the time. And while you have the CEO flock saying that he does respect some criticisms of the company, here's also what he said about this effort to just tell people where these cameras are. Unfortunately, there's terrorist organizations like Deflot, whose primary motivations chaos. They are closer to Antifa than they are anything else. And now I think there's unfortunate, because we don't want chaos or I don't want chaos. I like law and order. So essentially, if you're not on board using this site, you made this site, that's terrorism, organized terrorism. And while they are since apologized, one, a lot of people just don't believe them. But also two, many believe that this response in general, it just highlights the problem here. And in some ways, the backlash against flock is working. Cities, towns, and counties across the country, they have been holding these 10th-town halls, where you have residents objecting to their taxpayer funds or other public grants being spent on these cameras. And sometimes it works around 55 localities that ended their contracts with flock in the past year. Right, one of the things is that concerns about these cameras, they go way beyond just how freak it is that they capture and store our cars' movements. Are you at 404 media doing this report alleging that they can be used to track individual people, not just vehicles? Right, and claiming that police departments have used these cameras for this purpose hundreds of times, using searches like Heavy Set Mail with Black and White Hat or Person on Skateboard. And you know, they're article explaining, these are called freeform searches and allow cops to use flock system as though they would use a search engine with flocks, AI, and image recognition interpreting what footage and which people are relevant to a police officer's search. And these searches, they'll go across dozens or even hundreds of networks of cameras at once. That's big enough that they end up pulling images of unrelated innocent people. Now, for their part, you had flock publishing a blog post earlier this year saying that it's not a master valence tool insisting that, quote, flock ALPRs do not and cannot track vehicles much less individual people. They also told 404 that these freeform searches are not facial recognition and that their products do not have or use any facial recognition technology. Well, you've got people doubting that, whether it be now or what they do in the future. Many also think that they don't need facial recognition tech to be alarming. Right, so you have people like a senior policy analyst from the ACLU saying, "Much of the world hasn't quite caught up yet to how much more powerful a surveillance camera is today, compared to a few years ago." AI video analytics means that giant oceans of video data can now be searched the same way big text files can be including for sensitive content such as t-shirts, tattoos, and bumper stickers. Even without face recognition, that's a significant increase in surveillance capability. Right, and you also add a policy council, the Center for Democracy and Technology, saying, "These cameras, they're like a bait and switch." Right, it's like being told that you're getting a smoke detector and then later learning that it also records all your conversations. And understand, Fox cameras are already being abused by some of the police officers who use them for personal searches like stalking X's. Newsweek alone found examples in 12 states where officers had been accused of misusing these cams. And it's happened multiple times just here in Georgia where some officers have been charged with violating their own. And they're not alone in Alabama, some officers have been fired or resigned for improperly using the cameras, and Milwaukee and officer were sentenced to 12 months of probation after using Fox to track his ex-girlfriend and a new partner, but apparently, searching for her over 120 times in the system. And they also have issues with a lack of transparency for what exactly these cameras could be used for. Are you the electronic frontier foundation, saying that there was this one case in Texas where deputies said that they were searching for a woman as a missing person. When in reality, they were using data on her as a part of an abortion investigation. There are then also reports that ICE are using these cameras for immigration enforcement and in California, police allegedly illegally share data from automatic license plate readers with ICE and Border Patrol. And then you also have just tons of these situations where these cameras fuck up and they misread plates and they cause confusion or even lead police to investigate the wrong person. You had business insight or reporting that there was one town in California where Flots machine learning software misread license plates in 71 percent of the alerts that it sent to officers. If you had an employee that failed 71 percent of the time, you would fire them. That's not an employee. That is a raccoon that somehow got into the building. And so some of the things you'd see was like in one case, you would repeatedly confuse a nine on a plate for an eight falsie identifying a man's car is stolen. You also had CNN report on a case where a car reviewer in Minnesota was test driving a Range Rover when all of a sudden officer swarmed his car because it was reported to stolen even though it was owned by Land Rover in North America or but it then got mixed up with a car in Los Angeles with a similar plate that had been reported missing. And according to the ACLU, one in ten license plate scans from flock, they misread the state and under one percent of the car's scan are connected to any crime or wrongdoing. And so that ends up really not being too surprising that as more people learn about what's happening here, there's just kind of this united hatred, no matter your political party. Or you just have the likes of Nithya Rahman, the left wing mayoral candidate in Los Angeles saying that the city should cut ties with flock, arguing surveillance without oversight does not create public safety, saying it tracks innocent people, enables abuse and puts angelinos in danger. And then all the way on the other side of the aisle, you had took a Carlson devoting a whole episode of his show to this. And while they didn't defend people who were vandalizing the cameras, he did say their videos. In other words, of people who don't feel they have any other recourse whatsoever, making one last ditch attempt to preserve the one thing that makes them free in this or any other country, their birthright by the way, and it's called privacy. They don't have it. They'd like it back. The constitution guarantees it to them. Their lawmakers don't care. Their leaders don't care. Their police departments don't care. They don't think it's to make them safer. They understand that it's to strip them of their most basic humanity. Which it is. And so with what seems to be at least some degree of a united sentiment, there do appear to be efforts in Congress to crack down on these cameras. And so for example, you had representative Thomas Massey promising to sponsor a bill that would withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy flock and other style cameras to surveil law-abiding citizens. But because again, a lot of the outrage here, yes, it's around that it's happening in the first place, but also because public funds or grants and gifts given to cities are being used to pay for these in a lot of cases. Even though the people that the money is meant to benefit do not always want these cameras watching. And echoing that, you had Massey telling the Cincinnati inquirer, "I do not think that the federal government should be subsidizing the safety of cities who decided to go beyond the pale and basically turn their communities into a version of 1984." Saying as the constitution requires, you have to have probable cause and reasonable suspicion to spy on people. You can't just spy on everybody, and adding that the security provided by those cameras does not justify the privacy it strips away. Arguing you can solve every crime if you put tags in us and track this everywhere and made us all wear body cameras, but at what cost? But with all that said, I then got to turn it to you. What are your thoughts here? What's your opinion? What's your reaction? Whether this is how you're first learning about these cameras, if you've been a long time floccator, or even if you land somewhere else. And then, there's even more we're going to dive into in just a minute, but first, let me thank a sponsor and say, you know, booking a doctor's appointment, it should take five minutes. You know, it turns into three phone calls, two voice mails, and a calendar negotiation with a stranger. And then, once the scheduling negotiations are final, I mean, let's be real. Who actually remembers an appointment they booked four months ago? 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Or because you have Emily accusing Miller of abusing both her and their two-year-old daughters, specifically saying that you threw scalding hot water from a skilleted Emily, held a gun door head, shoved her up against the wall. And Emily says that he even fractured their daughter's collarbone and bruised her shoulder. But Miller, he's publicly denied all this and gone on the offence of calling Emily mentally ill, a liar, and a stalker who has put both him and his daughter in danger. Also in court, he's accused her of making repeated false or forced to child protective services, medical professionals, and law enforcement. You have him saying that she has untreated bipolar disorder and that she's stalking him and trying to damage his reputation. And as far as her daughter, Miller says that her broken collarbone was actually Emily's fault, caused by her reckless drive. And so with all that, Miller has sued both Emily and her legal team for defamation. And you had a campaign spokesperson saying, the facts speak for themselves. The court has continued to permit him joint custody of his child. If there were credible evidence supporting these outrageous accusations, that simply would not be the case. Congressman Miller will continue to vigorously defend his reputation against false and reckless allegations designed to inflame public opinion rather than reflect reality. And while all of this is largely playing out in the court and the headlines, you have Emily staying out of the public eye for the most part. Her father, Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, has not. And so over the weekend, you saw I'm taken to Twitter to say that Miller shouldn't be allowed to serve in the US house writing. As he has admitted, privately, Max Miller needs serious psychological health. Saying, he is a danger to my daughter. And I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter. If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them. I believe Max Miller needs to seek professional help to end the clear pattern of abuse he has left in his wake. I believe he should not be free to continue in dangering others until he does. And then as far as the Trump of it all, right now, it's at least not looking like Trump is going to swoop in to save the day. No matter how excited he was with Miller at one point, with sources telling the New York Times that Trump's inner circle is pretty pissed with the way that Miller is handling the situation. Many of you are viewing this as a disaster of his own making and his own mess to clean up himself. And then with that, you're seeing that a lot of Republicans are kind of staying either at lukewarm or just silent on this issue altogether. And you have that standing out on its own, but it's also worth pointing out because Republicans were very loud in their criticism of Democrats, Eric Swahwell and Graham Platner, when allegations against them came out. And so it puts a different sheen on situations like House Speaker Mike Johnson being asked, you know, why Miller and Cory Mills from Florida, they're still allowed in their Republican conference after they had domestic abuse allegations laid against them. But especially as you have situations where Democrats dump Platner. But as far as Johnson, he said that the key word in the situation is allegations and he added, we have a process here. I'm not in the business of commenting on investigations as they're in process and we'll see how that shakes out. And that ends up also being similar to what Trump himself said. - I'm gonna look at it. I've been so far as accusations that we look at that. - But as you also have people like Representative Jim Jordan saying things like this. - I know Max is a good man. I was up campaigning for him. I hope he wins reelection. He's done a good job as a member of Congress. And we should all pray for his family. These are difficult times that they're going through. We understand that. These kind of situations always are. But what you've seen there is that even within the Republican Party, some people kind of pissed at the response from prominent leaders. Of course, a very big thing that we've seen over there, especially these last 10 years is who is publicly associating their name with some sort of critique and who says it anonymously. With that in mind, you had one anonymous GOP operative telling Politico what happens when Democrats run ad after ad targeting GOP voters about Miller abusing the daughter of a pro-Trump mega-Senator. What does that do to GOP turnout? How does that affect our candidates at the top of the ticket who are already in tough races? And it ends up being about concern here. Because right now, Miller is reportedly still polling, but only just one percentage point ahead of point-dexter. This is a district that Trump won by double digits in 2024. So that's led to a lot of optimism from Democrats about actually being able to flip this seat blue. But things could still change because Miller still has until August 5th to drop out. Though I will say it doesn't look like that is the situation you're going to get. Because you had Miller going live on Twitter yesterday to deny everything redirecting it emily as well as saying that he plans on keeping on with his re-election campaign. Every single one of these allegations were already investigated, and I cooperated fully every single time because I had nothing to hide, and I have nothing to hide now. This election is just more about winning a seat in November for the Republican Party. This election to me is about my family and about our daughter and keeping our values here and holding the media and other individuals accountable who have been incredibly reckless. I'm not getting out of this race, and I'm winning in November, and I'll be back in the 120th. And then with all this, as far as poindexers take on all this, he said, if all the allegations against Congressman Miller proved to be true, Max Miller should be in jail, not worried about retaining a seat in Congress. And that was also echoed by the Democratic women's caucus who called for an investigation by the House Ethics Committee and said that Congress cannot sweep this under the rug. But for now, we're going to have to wait to see if that's true and how this whole situation plays out. But then also, while you've got news like Miller fighting to stay in the public eye despite the backlash against him, you then have other news like Ariana Grande actually taking a step back from public life. And that's re-ignited, this debate connected to, of course, people, they've been commenting on Ariana Grande's body for years now, while she was promoting the wicked movies when her tours started earlier this year. And just yesterday, you had our team giving a statement of people magazine saying, Ariana will be taking a step back from visibility after she completes the eternal sunshine tour. She looks forward to finishing the tour and ending it on a high note, both healthily and happily, and then taking a much-deserved break from public facing work and appearances, which has led to endless ongoing public scrutiny. The tour has been a beautiful experience for her. She loves her fans and has loved every minute of this tour so much. And then with that, she's also pulling out of a West End Revival of Sunday in the Park with George, which was highly anticipated production that many thought would further her theater career. And while their team, they didn't go into specifics or talk about what the public scrutiny impacting her is, everyone has kind of collectively filled in the blank. And so that is kind of what a big chunk of the conversation has been about her online, which is also kind of wild, 'cause her new album "Petal" actually just came out on Friday. The music video for the title track also came out too, and with that, you had some expressing genuine concern and other harsh criticism over her waiting. Or with, for example, Buzzfeed putting out a piece, claiming the shots in the video appear deliberately composed to draw attention to and emphasize her thinness in a way that can be reasonably viewed as glamorizing it. You also had a lot of people reading into the premise of the video, which shows Ariana and an old Hollywood casting call, continuously changing her image as a panel of men and suits reject her over and over. In some scenes, they cite her appearance, and she needs work done or needs to lose a few pounds. At one point, they tell her they miss the old version of her and ask if she has a personality disorder. And it then ends with her attacking these men with a chainsaw, which kind of fits with other themes in the album exploring anger, with the press, media, and maybe even her fans. And so then with that, you had comments on the video popping up saying things like, "It's not about wanting the old Ariana back. "It's about wanting her to be healthy." And saying, "I genuinely wish her wellness, "praying her close friends and family "are being there for her." Of course, we only know what we see, but it is saddened nonetheless. And then, of course, there are also comments with that are less sympathetic ones that are more making this a spectacle and scandal out of it, which is then where you have a lot of this story getting complicated for people because there is a very, very, I will say, fine line between concern and compassion versus cruelty and condemnation. Do you have some writing things like the truth is, we don't know what's going on with the Ariana, that's her personal business. But we can and need to comment on this as it relates to the image of a pop star that young girls are going to see and try to emulate. But then also, you're seeing things like one clinical psychologist writing a piece with a conversation explaining. Many people defend comments about a celebrity's appearance by saying they're simply expressing concern. But you then have them arguing concern doesn't require thousands of strangers discussing someone's body online. Saying public speculation can become deeply personal, intrusive, and impossible to escape. Arguing research shows stigma surrounding eating disorders remains a major barrier to seeking help. Many people delay treatment because of shame, fear of judgment, and misconceptions about what an eating disorder looks like. So public conversations that repeatedly evaluate people's bodies may inadvertently reinforce exactly the problems we hope to prevent. And then interestingly, at another psychiatrist telling USA Today that when it comes to these kinds of discussions where the person of the center is just so visible, the best thing to do is to not talk about them directly, but talk about the issue at large. So instead of asking whether a specific person looks too thin, we can talk about the broader patterns we're seeing that rapid rise in the visibility of medications like GLP1s and the messages they send when used outside of current clinical guidelines. And saying when the focus stays on individual bodies, even with good intentions, it can quickly become toxic and harmful. But again, it ends up being tricky for a lot of people because in publishing these pieces, the people behind them are still in fact in some way talking about Ariana Grande. And then it's also worth noting that while many articles exploring how this should be discussed naturally bring up eating disorders, there is no public knowledge about what Ariana is or is not suffering from. And I'm not bringing that up to suggest that she is, but it has become a part of this very sensitive conversation. But ultimately, that's where we are. And I do end up having to pass a question off to you of what are your thoughts on this? I feel like this topic comes up at least once or twice a year and whether it be with Ariana Grande, specifically you're kind of whoever one of the stars is at the time. But then from that, for your final block, as I like to try to do on the show, we've got more news you need to know that I'm gonna try and cram in before you go. First up, you've got Trump's so-called anti-weaponization fund now dead and gone, at least for now, though that's also not even the end of the story. Because he's a Todd Blanche announcing this formal order yesterday just in time for his confirmation tomorrow saying, "The fund is not operative. No funds were transferred. No process for receiving claims was established. No claims were paid." This order establishes beyond any doubt that there is no fund. Because while Blanche said back in June that they were letting it go after all the backlash they got from people on both sides of the aisle, we'd send it Republicans, John Corden and Tom Tillis, saying, "Hey, we want that in writing." And so they put his confirmation on hold last week. And that might have been a smart play because Trump, he was apparently still holding on hope to keep it. Even this week, you had him claiming that if Kornin and Tillis kept blocking Blanche's confirmation, he'd just keep him on as acting A.G. and keep pushing to get the fund pass, saying it'll immediately be back on the table and I will get it done. But then to that, you had Tillis saying President Trump clearly intends to resurrect the payout pot for punks, which I guess is his word for January 6th rioters, and saying it's unfortunate that Todd Blanche, who I consider qualified for the job, will not be confirmed because of this reversal. Hopefully we can resolve this by Tuesday. And so while it looks like, you know, yesterday's order cleared things up there, you also had Kornin and Tillis having concerns about Trump's tax immunity with the IRS. They wanted to make sure that he wasn't some get out of jail free card that he could use for any tax investigations in the future. And so Blanche threw in a blurb in the order to clear that up as well. But that is just for the future, right? This keeps up the part of the deal that saving Trump something like $600 million. Apparently that part, all well and good with Kornin and Tillis, who made a joint statement this morning saying that their concerns had been addressed. And so it looks like confirmation's on. But that said, in other news, it might not be all good news for Trump's good. Because you now have a firing a Janine Puro of all people for saying what we've all been thinking, the issue with the reflecting pool isn't random vandals with box cutters. It's just a botched renovation job. Because you have our office dropping the charges against former Olympian David Hurn, who they've said damaged the pool earlier this summer. And actually now you have them saying that the damage is because contractors rush to get the job done in time for the 250th celebration events that were going on in DC last month. With Piro saying, given all this newly discovered information, it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the reflecting pool to vandalism. You even had a turning it on the interior department saying they gave less than full some information about the case from the start, and adding if they were forthcoming with the information clearly in their possession, the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment. And this is just such an interesting turn of events coming from someone who said that she had tremendous evidence when she announced the case in the first place. So then as far as Trump, he crashed out on Truth Social. Saying I disagree 100% with Janine Piro, it was a pure case of vandalism all caps. There may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by vandals. With me even posting a video of people at the pool saying look for yourselves, the material is being cut with a knife or a box cutter for all to see. You've had most people saying we really can't see what's going on there, so it doesn't really seem that helped his point at all. Then with all that, you've got people turning to the contractors and government officials involved here. They're saying they deserve to be investigated for lying to a federal grand jury about all this, and others even saying that everyone involved should go to prison. It's an alley also of people wondering if this could be the end of the road for Piro, or because you've seen what happens when Trump's minions let him down. But for now, it looks like that is yet to be determined. And personally all I gotta say is wow, this is definitely the first case of Trump working with contractors that did not end well. And in other news, you're currently watching one of the worst crypto disasters in recent memory unfold in real time, and it is targeting the one group of people who actually did everything right, because hackers have managed to breach cold card and drain almost $100 million from over $1,200 Bitcoin addresses in about 41 minutes. And this is a just massive deal because cold card was supposed to be the gold standard offline hard wallet, and so now you have people wanting answers. Because the hack of this magnitude, it raises a lot of questions. I mean, this is an offline wallet, meaning it is not connected to the internet at all. And therefore it's supposed to be extremely secure. So how do the hackers manage to get the keys from these wallets? And while the security advisory from block reveal that there was a massive coding mistake in certain cold card firmware versions, this made it so that the wallets generated recovery phrases were predictable. And so the attackers didn't need physical access to your device. They literally mapped out the keys and emptied the vaults remotely. And the real salt and the wound for people who use coin kites wallet updating your firmware or moving the Bitcoin to another wallet will not save your funds if your seed phrase was created on affected software. We can a stays attached to that recovery phrase. Or you can think of it like a password updated in your computer. It won't matter if hackers still know your unupdated password. Because you've got users being urged to make a brand new recovery phrase after updating or risk all your Bitcoin. And while you had coin kites CEO, Redolfo Novak is doing a public apology saying he's devastated and taking full accountability. It is not as full as a lot of users would want. Because in his statement, you had him saying that the company would release a full technical report over how this happened and help users to pursue police reports, insurance claims, with their own investigations. But getting your money back from the people you trusted, apparently that's a bridge too far. And then also notably, they blamed AI, claiming that AI assisted code review can find bugs and code that would take humans forever to figure out. And while they're not alone, this has been a growing trend and it's raised a lot of red flags about security and essentially every coded system. So you have the spirit out there that this could be the new normal for a while. And then last up in the news today, New York just found a $36 billion lawsuit against Cal State because New York A.G. Letitia James said that they're running an illegal gambling operation. And that $36 billion? That's how much you have her claiming that they've made from sports gambling times three a $100,000 fine for each time they offered it without a license plus restitution for people who place bets on the platform. But now you have Cal State speaking out saying it's sad to see this type of political theater from the leadership in our own state. Saying states can't just shut down a federally licensed exchange. We love New York, we love New Yorkers and New Yorkers love our product. But truthfully what you're saying is that New York is just the latest in all of their legal battles across the country. Because you get this tug of war going on with Cal State in the middle where a state who's saying that the federal government is stepping on their rights with prediction market regulation. And it doesn't appear ironic because as reports have noted, the federal government originally wanted to prevent states from offering sports betting, which is a Supreme Court said was overreaching. And now they could be overreaching by allowing it. You've got people from federal agencies like the Commodity Futures Trading Commission saying, rather than seek reasoned answers from the courts, Letitia James and New York seek to force an unprecedented sudden shutdown of prediction markets nationwide. The CFTC is already sued to stop this and will continue to defend its jurisdiction. But then you also have a ton of people rooting for states like New York saying this lawsuit is important and necessary action to uphold the rule of law, protect consumers and defend the nearly 70,000 New York jobs supported by the legal gaming industry. And so what you should expect is that this is probably all going to land with a Supreme Court sooner or later. And while that my friend, you beautiful bastard is the end of your Monday show. I got two things to end up. And that is one, if you want to snag this emotionally exhausted shirt, which we just dropped, you can go to BeautifulBattery.com. 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