Comment by captainkrtek
3 months ago
Is there a way to see where they are located? Or which cities are installing them? Hadn’t heard of them til this week
3 months ago
Is there a way to see where they are located? Or which cities are installing them? Hadn’t heard of them til this week
You can find them listed here. https://deflock.me/map#map=5/39.828300/-98.579500
Which is better than Flock's "Transparency" Report. I live in WA, ex-Flock employee, and in my County, half of the agencies with Flock agreements are not on their Transparency portal.
And at the very least - why can't you search the Transparency Portal? You have to try each and every agency name. Let's try https://transparency.flocksafety.com/ ...
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Has been like that for a year plus, at least.
> And at the very least - why can't you search the Transparency Portal? You have to try each and every agency name.
Was it different in the past? It seems like it'd be beneficial to Flock and their customers to make obtaining this information as obtuse as possible, while maintaining the vaguest appearance of "transparency". If they could charge you $10 per search, they probably would.
As an aside - can I ask why you left Flock? I assumed that the people who would've wanted to work there would be fully invested into the idea. What changed your mind?
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https://eyesonflock.com/ is the closest to an actual searchable version
They seem to be going up rapidly at the moment.
I live in a county where the county seat is <15k people (<40k in the entire county). There are two camera locations listed on deflock - four cameras total, since they face both directions. In the past month, I’ve discovered an additionally six locations (twelve cameras), all of which show signs of having been very recently installed.
I went to add them to Deflock, but their process requires an OSM account. I wasn’t able to do that on the side of the road, and haven’t gotten back to it yet.
About 40k new cameras each year from what I have seen.
If you find yourself with some time, there is now a DeFlock app that helps with mapping. It also includes locations where people suspect there might be a camera, though that is limited to about a third of the states so far.
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Holy crap, there are almost 1000 in my part of my city.
The security cameras deployed in Lowe's and Home Depot parking lots are Flock. All the better to track your movements, citizen.
I don't understand if flock deployment in Lowe/Home Depot is because margins are so low it is the only way to survive, or margins so high that they can afford such a program just to eek out a tiny bit more sales from the collected consumer info.
Either way it doesn't make sense to me why hardware stores are the biggest private use case.
Neither. It’s because Home Depot/Lowes loses billions of dollars a year due to theft, both organized and petty. Just like they have security cameras in the store, they have security cameras in the parking lot.
I always assumed they were just a deterrent given the flashing blue lights and audio “this area is being monitored”, and less of an actual threat.
They have a very “citizen pick up that can” feel to them.