NOTING: Flock surveillance
Written 30 August 2025 · carried from the author's own record
Flock Safety
We in the area of Fort Collins are watched by numerous devices. Sometimes they let you have data about you. Sometimes they don’t. It might not be obvious which response is better; Should you hope they can precisely tag you and extract you with haste? Should you hope they even know how, or how to verify who’s asking?
- ://www.flocksafety.com/
- ://fcreport.org/new-resource-fort-collins-public-surveillance-mapping/
- ://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rural-virginia-then-asked-police-to-send-me-their-public-surveillance-footage-of-my-car-heres-what-i-learned/
Drones as First Responders
Flock has been initiating zero-cost projects with cities which supply the police drones using unsupervised AI to race to alleged crime scenes.
In some cases, Flock technology seems distributed alongside Skydio’s technology.
Both programs solicit the use of their unvetted technology to police departments, for free, without the knowledge of any elected public servant.
You should anticipate the lethal arming of these drones in the future, and for technology algorithms to authorize target selection.
You should also be aware that we have over two decades of precedent that says Algorithms Don’t Hurt Anybody.
Dashcams
Flock technology has been found to operate in consumer-grade dashcams, without knowledge or disclosure to anyone.
They are spying on you, peering through your own eyes, and you’ve never even read their “Privacy” Policy.
How much longer will it take you to realize that Privacy Policy is an oxymoron?
Their Snooping Declaration
You should understand that Companies claiming to be People are declaring their intent to harvest you by any means necessary.
We are surrounded by Companies who sell Spyware, and not to us.
Their spying is about us.
Meanwhile, they make you talk to simpleton bots and do not answer phones.
What should escalation on our part look like?
This is not only a Flock problem, not only a Fort Collins problem.
I think, everywhere, we should be Policed By Our Own.