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My City Just Banned Flock After My Wrongful Stop Made National Newsthedrive.com

The Plymouth City Council voted almost unanimously to end its contract with Flock three months after I was mistakenly targeted as a car thief.

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helsinkiandrew1 day ago
The original stop story seems like a data entry problem that would/could have happened without Flock - wouldn't a stolen car/plate be entered in the FBI National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database and looked up by a cop elsewhere resulting in the same stop? Perhaps not as quickly.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-trac...

> A simple data-entry error, magnified and broadcast nationwide by a growing surveillance network operated through an opaque partnership between a private company and public agencies, led police to identify me as a car thief and set up a sting to take me down.

Ukv1 day ago
> seems like a data entry problem that would/could have happened without Flock

Sounds as though there was also a Flock error matching the (misentered) "34 DTM" in the database to the author's number plate of "34 10 DTM" with a small "10":

> And Flock’s AI tech wasn’t registering that non-standard little number when it began picking up the Range Rover around town. It just saw 34 DTM in large type and started alerting the local police.

mmmlinux1 day ago
Unless they are gone, they are still operating.
infamouscow1 day ago
Getting permission from municipalities to install cameras is just phase one.

I'd encourage everyone here to propagate the idea their business model is selling publicly recorded video of children to pedophiles.

Markoff1 day ago
Here is the video of the stop from body cam

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dal4EWpx-g8/

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