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Gururu Imagine what would have happened if it was several unmarked vehicles with masked men. Reply
TechieTwo Garbage in = garbage out. Negligence by the data entry person and a warning about AI's limitations and NJ's oddball plates. I'll bet Flock caught a lot of real crims in the hour it took CA cops to sort out the mistakes. Reply
jmcgaw So, Flock made a false police report. Isn't that a felony in nearly every jurisdiction? Oh, and the police were not quite bright enough to actually look at the plates in question and see that there was no match? As if there wasn't enough natural stupid in the world, we now have machine-augmented stupid. Reply
PEnns And the worst part of the story?? "..a $155,000 loaner Range Rover" Range Rover?? Sheesh, one could buy a real car with that amount, like a very decent used Ferrari !! Reply
Rabohinf "Thankfully, the incident did not turn into something serious . . . " Are you kidding me? Reply
chaos215bar2 So much to not like here. Not the least of which is this: Thankfully, the incident did not turn into something serious, especially as the Plymouth Police told Feder that the cops would have stopped him with guns drawn if he were in Minneapolis. Just in this one sentence, How is being detained by the police for an hour under false suspicion not "serious"? How would the Plymouth Police know how Minneapolis police would respond? This sounds like utter crap. Why would Minneapolis police respond with guns drawn when they already know they have at most a 1 in 4 chance of stopping the right car, and likely much lower, because the original report was in LA! Read between the lines, and this one article touches on nearly everything that's wrong with policing in the US. You have mass surveillance, which is somehow not a 4th amendment violation because reasons. You have overreacting police who have no excuse not to have known ahead of time they almost certainly have the wrong vehicle. You have an innocent car reviewer detained for an hour due to incompetence. And you have… whatever stupid political deflection that Minneapolis comment represents. The reality here is that, first, Flock simply shouldn't exist. Their entire product is an absolutely wild end run around the 4th amendment. But beyond that, Plymouth Police utterly failed to do basic due diligence. What would they have done if they hadn't been able to prove the reviewer's innocence right on the spot? Would they have jailed him and impounded the car over a partial match to stolen plates reported in California? There are probably hundreds of plates in the US, across all states, that match 34 ## DTM. Reply
bigdragon I kind of wish this incident had turned violent. I don't want to advocate for the loss of life, but I feel like that's the only way to get the people spreading Flock and other AI-assisted surveillance technologies to back off. Where I live, us residents can complain and oppose Flock cameras all we want. Our representatives keep putting in the cameras. We vote in new people and the new people keep spreading the cameras. This will reduce crime, save the children, protect/find pets, increase traffic safety, save money, and some new marketing excuse they'll come up with next they said. Opposing people with psychological and behavioral experts on their marketing team is impossible. "Serious" incidents seem to be the only way to get people to wake up or snap out of the Jedi mind trick marketing. Reply
VizzieTheViz how are Americans not up in arms about this? If there had been suspicion of a little more serious crime or the suspect had been a little less white the consequences could have been horrible. The us police is obviously not ready to use this tech in a responsible way. The issue isn’t the tech is fallible, it’s that the police could easily have known not to do this and they just didn’t bother to do their job properly. Human in the loop is useless if the human doesn’t do what it’s supposed to. Just get rid of this stuff before the US makes China looks like a pretty nice place with moderate surveillance. Reply
TerryLaze bigdragon said: I kind of wish this incident had turned violent. I don't want to advocate for the loss of life, but I feel like that's the only way to get the people spreading Flock and other AI-assisted surveillance technologies to back off. How would police violence have any effect on flock?!? This incident could have happened the exact same way without flock, the officers could have just spotted the car themselves and reacted the exact same way. Flock just spots the cars and gives the officers the info. Reply
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