Oakland PrivacyFlock’s nationwide license plate network is now using AI to label driving patterns as “suspicious.” This shifts it from tracking vehicles of interest to actively generating suspicion.
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious
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TanekRune@oaklandprivacy@mastodon.social
*Crosses fingers and prays this leads to the latent effect of people walking, biking, and taking public transit more*
C'mon, c'mon, hurry up and make it more inconvenient to drive than to not....
Oakland Privacy"The company’s cameras are no longer just recording our comings and goings — now, using AI in ways we have long warned against, the system is actively evaluating each of us to make a decision about whether we should be reported to law enforcement as potential participants in organized crime."
Oakland Privacy"In a democracy, the government shouldn’t be watching its citizens all the time just in case we do something wrong. It’s one thing if a police officer out on a street sees something suspicious in public and reacts. But this is an entirely different matter."
Oakland Privacy"In a democracy, the government shouldn’t be watching its citizens all the time just in case we do something wrong. It’s one thing if a police officer out on a street sees something suspicious in public and reacts. But this is an entirely different matter."