Back in January, Flock’s CEO, Garrett Langley referred to DeFlock, a group that is building a map to track Flock’s license plate reader cameras, as a “terroristic organization.” This past week, he backtracked and said he was sorry, but he tried to shift the blame to those looking for transparency, which is alarming. Sure, we’ve seen a spike in what I will admit are questionable or even illegal acts against these cameras, but not because of DeFlock. Instead, these acts appear to be part of a growing frustration by people who don’t like being spied upon. Yet, we all need to reflect as to why these some 120,000 cameras are in neighborhoods, peering down our streets, watching our every move, and being cataloged with significant amounts of detail. There’s more that we don’t know, that we can surmise, about Big Brother, and it’s up to us to start questioning, as we all should.
Flock Safety’s CEO called a camera-mapping group ‘terroristic,’ raising questions about surveillance transparency and public accountability.
Source: The CEO behind America’s AI camera network calls transparency activists ‘terroristic’
