Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.”

But that's, like, the only thing it does, though...

A small thing keeps getting mentioned, but not explained. These things maintain a 'whitelist' of license plates they'll 'ignore.'

Why? Who is on that list? And who gets to decide what licenses are placed on the list? Are these logged and audited?

I received a job offer to work at Flock, as a security architect ensuring tenants don't see each other's videos... I'm declining. Flock it.

Good. Where?

From the article - this is some minority report pre-crime bullshit.

‘One prompt Flock preloaded into the system reads: “Find me witnesses based on vehicles most seen in [neighborhood] during [last 14 days] during [daily timeframe] *(will not include whitelisted vehicles).” An officer would fill in the blanks and submit it. The output is a list of plates, which other tools in the product then convert into names and home addresses.

Another prompt instructs the system to list everyone arrested more than twice in two years for “any offense,” exempting only narcotics arrests, and then says to map where those people live, retrieve the calls for service at their homes, and “do a workup on the top three individuals.” The prompt begins with everyone in the area who has an arrest record and ends with dossiers on three of them, chosen by the software.

One group of requests asks for vehicles that visited three or more retail locations in a city in three days, or multiple banks in a week, or multiple gas stations between midnight and 5 am. None of the five names a target or an incident.’

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.

“Reconstructed”? What does that mean here? Give me a repo link.

How does the archive link still include the paywall that pops up as soon as you scroll down into the article? Thats the first time I've seen that.

Flock cameras are notoriously insecure. Why not hack them and put them to use against their primary operators?

Source code?