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Flock Cameras Turn America Into a Surveillance State

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I don't know if you're following this thing with Flock cameras. Very, very weird what they're doing. Like, how much more do you want to know? And this is this is By the way, I actually think this is going to be a topic of discussion in midterms in 2028 that people have to address. That people truly have to address. So, let me let me kind of go through this with you. And you tell me how you feel about this. What What page is it on? Page 14. All right, here we go. Flock planned to use 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers as mobile license plate cameras. What? K- Uber drivers? Yes. W- What's your outcome? Why are you doing this? A Flock presentation obtained through a public record request shows the surveillance company planned to use dash cameras installed in hundreds of thousands of Uber, Lyft, and delivery cars to collect license plate data of its net for its network. The document written to present to Georgia office of the attorney general last August stated Plus, Nexar partnership, which include 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and other delivery service devices. Flock told 404 Media it never executed the partnership with Nexar, but the presentation lays out the company's plan to enlist ride share and delivery drivers to gather license plate data. It is not clear whether Uber, Lyft, and or drivers would have known their vehicles were being used for this purpose. Nexar sells dash cams that provide front cabin and rear view and already offers clear license plate capture with full HD video. Neither Uber nor Lyft responded to request for comment from 404 Media. The report comes as Breitbart News recently documented at least 50 law enforcement officers caught using Flock data to stalk victims, including online police chief who allegedly tracked his ex-girlfriend and her teenage daughter plates about 600 times. Vinny, your thoughts on this? It's It's I'm 1,000% against this, and I don't know how how all the all Americans are always like, "Our privacy this, our privacy that." This should be at the forefront. And I don't know Connor's going to play this video pad. This isn't Wakasha County, Wisconsin. Police boxed in the silver SUV, held two people at gunpoint after Flock camera flagged the vehicle as connected to a Milwaukee homicide involving an armed suspect. The There was no no accident, no traffic, stuff like that, but the traffic was ridiculous. The Flock system scanned the license plate, matched it to an alert in the database, and police responded like potential dangerous, guns drawn, about to kill this person. The problem was the alert was outdated. The the police no longer were looking for the vehicle or the people inside of it, but someone failed to remove it from the system, okay? Human error in this computer. And the camera did exactly what it was designed to do. It read the plate, alerted the police on that information. And by the way, this isn't the first I saw a video pad. This lady's at her house. This video here up on the Play this video. Look that. Guns drawn, pulled over a car they say was flagged by Flock cameras in connection to a homicide. No, hands open. Turns out this was all some sort of mishap with the Flock camera systems. In fact, They think that's a murder because the car the the camera's reading the license plate, reporting to the police station, but the police station didn't update it. So, they're chasing this person, stops them in the traffic. There's another one where a woman is summoned by the the detective shows up to her house and goes, "This is you. You're stealing a package." And she's sitting there calm going, "No, no, I'm not." He's like, "You're lying. This is 100% you." Guess what? It's not her. And then you mentioned there's up to 50 people are using it to spy on people. There's two other videos I sent Connor. That one guy's at a golf course. Look at this. What the hell is this doing at a golf course? You're golfing. What What Really? Really? You want to track people there? That is unbelievable. At a shooting range and everything. I'm just telling you guys right now, and it's being used to stalk people. Let cops do their job, okay? We pay them to do their jobs. Give them the tools to go after criminals. I don't want cameras in every corner, Pat. By the way, this is AI. It tracks movement. If there's a dent on your car, it could flag you, and it knows that let me tell you what my concern here is. It's less Flock, it's more Nexar. Because a a a study of 2023 academic study used 24.8 million Nexar dash cam images from rideshare drivers in New York City to identify where police vehicles were located. Researchers detected police vehicles in 233,596 images and use that information to analyze police deployment. Okay. So, then here's my question for you, Vinnie. That's maybe it's the devil's advocate. Are you okay with Waze telling you there's a cop ahead? I don't use Waze anymore, but But are you okay with the technology that tells you a quarter of a mile ahead of you there's a there's a cop? Yes. Do you support that? I use it. You don't drive, bro. How would you use it? Well, I'd tell the Uber, "Hey, go go this way or go that way cuz it's Are you supportive of knowing when you're driving fast you on 90 mi You don't drive fast, but I'm saying let's just say a person's driving fast 90 mi an hour and it says there's a cop ahead of you. Do you support that? I'm kind of indifferent because it doesn't really apply A lot of people would say they support it. It's legal. Well, well, a lot of times it's like there's like a cop that was there that cop was there because they were doing something Do you know what I'm asking though? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. That's a form of it. That's a form of surveillance. True, but it but but but but that is Wazers. Shout out to the Wazers. They're they're reporting on what they're seeing. When it's a surveillance state, I'm 100% against it. yeah, but the other part of it is also technology that that shows what they're doing because this Nexar company, you know, this isn't a new thing. Like Nexar's been doing this for a while. They you know, Nexar has deliberately targeted rideshare drivers for you. In 2021, it partnered with New York City's black car fund to put cameras in thousands of vehicles driven by independent and rideshare drivers. 2021 is 5 years ago. So, have you ever heard of Nexar? Tom, have you ever heard of Nexar? Nexar, no. But, I know about the program and I know why they were doing this. They were putting cameras inside black cars because drivers were getting jumped. Uh they also um put cameras back there because um uh drivers were uh hearing things and then the police wanted to know, "Hey, when the two guys got in the back of your car, one of them had the black backpack ba ba ba ba ba ba. What did you notice?" I wasn't paying attention. I I followed my Uber, you know, map that I was supposed to and I dropped them off. "Where did you drop them off? What did you see?" So, police have been trying to get this. Um so, I did not know about Nexar, the company, but I know I am very familiar with the program um because uh police wanted the surveillance data pa on people in the back of the car and you would get into an Uber and there'd be a little sign, "You are under surveillance." Yeah. Because there are female Uber drivers that didn't want to get robbed or jumped as well. Yeah. Well, Pat, ready for this then? This is on These are small cases. Imagine when it's in the hundreds of thousands where detectives are showing up to your house going, "This is you. You're under arrest." And then you have to wait to prove yourself. And then what's going to be the next thing is going to be pre-crime. Listen, from the steps that you're taking now, we assume that you're going to probably go and kill this person cuz you're mad at her cuz she broke up with you. that? Minority Report? That's Minority Report, but I'm just saying, but Tommy, this is the These are the small steps. And I get Pat, you made a great point with the way What are you comfortable with? Um Flock made a deal with Ring to get door camera stuff and then they also made a uh deal they actually bought Aerodome, which was um uh uh police drones. They bought the company. And they're trying to provide this. Amazon Ring cameras cuz Amazon bought Ring. Pat homeowners associations wanted people in their neighborhoods, everyone please get a Ring camera so that we can turn this over to police and those of you that have been having high-value Amazon packages stolen on your porch, what are those called? Porch pirates? Says, now we can turn this over to police. So on that side people go, hey that's great. Hey, are you looking forward to AOC being president in 2028 and using data like this No. to Yeah. I'm not a fan of it. Well, there you go. Well, well America is going to get freedom stomped for the illusion of safety and security. Yeah, I know. And then bad people use it for the benefit. And then bad people use I mean, it's definitely giving me George O- Orwell 1984 vibes. I'll say that, but I'm also like sort of I understand that this stuff's happening. Everyone's got a cell phone. Everybody's a citizen journalist these days. We're going to Nobody wants a surveillance state, but like cameras are everywhere. Ring cameras are everywhere. Thank God we have cameras in certain places. Yes, we don't also want to be tracked. So I I think there's like a pros and cons thing here. I don't think this is a black and white issue. What will probably happen is like somehow you could register and like opt out of being tracked or something like that because we do believe in, you know, move freedom of movement not having being being tracked, but don't you think this kind of stuff is just inevitable, but it's it's weird. It's eerie. Look, Andy Andy Andrew Bustamante, shout out to him by the way. Andrew Bustamante, um when we were on he says, brother this is what I'm trying to tell you that we are living in surveillance state and there's nothing you can do about it. They're watching everything that we're doing. And if I'm not mistaken if I'm not mistaken that he even recently just announced that he's leaving the state and and going to a completely different place. Uh uh Yeah, I I He's the least discreet spy ever. He's like, hey guys, I got a podcast and I'm going to go into hiding now. Can you go to Amazon by the way? Can you go to Amazon and type in Andy Bustamante? I think his book is coming out. You know, you you got to read these guys' books to see where they're at with the stuff that they know. Because he said, "Pat, this is happening whether you and I right there, if you just click his name, whether you like it or not." Yeah, that's the one that's coming out right there. Outsmart everyone. Spy kills spy skills to gain an unfair advantage in work and life. And that book, if you want to put the link below to go buy the book that's coming out on Andrew Bustamante. But to me, to me when you think about this, it's here. It's just how much they're going to expand. And it will be a political thing that some guys will support it, but it is going to be on the ballot. I think Flock will be a topic of discussion in 2028. When we did the governor debate with Paul Renner, Jay Collins, and James Fishback, right? You know what they all wanted to talk about? Flock cameras. Every one of them wanted to talk about the Flock cameras. And it was a very By the way, let me say something about the debate that everybody knows cuz people keep asking me uh uh Byron Donalds, who is the leading candidate, he's ahead by a mile. I don't know where he's at between 35 to 45%. He said he would do the debate if anybody hits double digit. On multiple reports, Jay Collins and Fishback, whether you like these guys or not or support them or not, they both hit double digits. I've called Byron Collins and I've texted him. I've not heard back. So, from my end, cuz my name is also on the line, I've reached out to try to bring Byron to do the debate. His team hasn't gotten back to me. He hasn't texted me back. He's always been very good at getting back to me. He hasn't done that thus far. And that is their way maybe of saying that they don't think they need to do the debate. I do applaud the Collins camp and the Fishback camp that got to double digits. I actually really really really like Paul Renner. I really like what he had to say. Nobody knew who he was. And sometimes marketing matters. But uh Byron Donalds told me he would do it. He hasn't done it. You know, he's probably going to end up being a Florida governor here. And it's not like I want to have a thing with all the Florida governors every single flipping time. This is probably a guy that I'm aligned with a lot of the things he believes in. But, um we try to schedule the What does that number show? According to Kaus this is not the Evan There's a He's up 98% of it. the point though. There's polls. There is polls, there's your word. Totally get it. There is my word. You told me I said that, I got your commitment, and I think a lot of this is behind us Evan whatever the Florida GOP guy uh that even DeSantis is on my side. DeSantis says there needs to be a debate. DeSantis say? DeSantis says you should debate. DeSantis Yeah, there needs there needs to be a debate. So. And and you know, you know, some of the people are like, well, he's just doing what, you know, Trump did Trump didn't need to do a debate. No, no, he did. And Trump debated multiple times. And Trump was the president previously. And Donald's has not been the governor, but they're already going to the other side. Power, the Florida GOP Evan Power. Yeah, what's the last day by the way? What's the last day if they do decide to have a debate or not? Uh uh you know when the primary ends for Florida? Can you see what the date is? I think it's August 23rd or August up soon. It's coming up here soon. So. But, he's going to debate in the general, right? Of course he's going to debate Democratic candidate. August 18th. So, there that day cannot come fast enough Oh, it's warm. for Evan and can't come fast enough for the other guy. So, they they avoided the debate. recently. said this is Thomas and he calls in. Look, nobody is doing marketing better than Fishback. You got to give him credit. Again, whether you like it this is not about policies. Nobody does better on marketing than Fishback. He's doing a great job on the marketing side. And these guys don't want to sit down and talk to him. And it is what it is. eyeballs. He knows how to get eyeballs. But, not all eyeballs are good eyeballs. That's what we've learned. the point. I'm about the debate. I'm about the debate, especially if you're not a governor yet. I'm about the debate and we're going to be around for a while. If you give me your word, keep your word. I don't like it when you give me your word and you don't keep your word. Anyways, let me pass on move on to the next story. 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