Flock Pre-Crime Is Officially Here. (And It's Legal)

[00:00:00]We are getting flocked. Now, maybe you know what flock is. Maybe you don't know what flock is. Or maybe you just don't get it. You need to watch this because I'm about to explain to you exactly how bad flock and mass surveillance really is and where it's going.

[00:00:17]>> They're even bringing flock right to your neighborhood. You won't even need to be out in public. Just a quick catch up for those of you who don't know what flock is. That is a flock camera. Well, it's a 3D print of a flock camera. Flock Safety is a private company that is turning these out by the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, very soon.

[00:00:37]And they have contracts with both private and public entities. They're putting these cameras all over in cities and towns. And their stated primary purpose is license plate recognition.

[00:00:48]But it goes way further than that.

[00:00:51]There's companies like Lowe's or Home Depot that can also use Flock or any private company can have a contract with Flock. They even want to monitor you at home with your homeowners association and it's all linked together in one big network and essentially they're tracking us whenever we go out in public everywhere we go. Now, keep in mind that what's limiting them to license plate right now with this particular version, it's just software. You got to remember it's a camera. It can see everything.

[00:01:20]It's just limited by software. So, don't think for [music] a moment that once there's millions of these that they don't just expand the software.

[00:01:30]And there's more investigative content coming on this mass surveillance.

[00:01:34]Attorneys [music] and I have filed nearly a dozen public record requests for flock, Leonardo, [music] and other information from city, county, and state [music] entities. So, you're going to want to see that content when we publish it. So, hit that subscribe and ring that bell.

[00:01:52]Flock is getting a lot of attention right now. And the comments are really mixed. You have people that are obviously more privacy focused, more independence f focused, more anti-mass surveillance, you know, anti- big government focused, and then you get this sprinkle of people who seem to think that this is just not that big of a deal. That that's frustrating because I've spent my entire life in information security. Um, I was an information security analyst. I was a professional hacker uh in my in my younger years and can you believe it? I'm almost 50 years old. One of the things that I don't think that people are understanding when I made the previous flock videos there were about 98,000 flock cameras I think reported at the time. By the time we hit upload it was over 100,000 like 102,000.

[00:02:39]And since then it's going up hundreds of cameras a day. That's a lot of cameras.

[00:02:45]And I don't think that people fully grasp how quickly that's growing and where these cameras are ending up. Let's just play this game for a moment. Let's let's show you exactly [music] where this is heading. Right now, intersections in cities and towns [music] all over the United States have flot cameras. They're also putting cameras in Home Depot and Walmarts and other private companies. They're all still linked in that same network. Now they're talking about flot cameras on school buses, on garbage trucks, on package delivery companies, trucks.

[00:03:19]Imagine that for a moment. Vehicles multiple times a week are now crawling every street [music] in every city across our country tagging license plates sitting in private drives. Now, think about this for a second. I'm on a private ranch. There's no school bus coming up here. But imagine FedEx and there's flock cameras on a [music] FedEx truck. I have ranch vehicles that don't leave the ranch. That is a massive invasion of privacy. And some law enforcement officer sitting on his cruiser from his laptop has access [music] to all of that data. This is where it's headed. It's not going to be thousands of cameras. It's going to be millions and millions of cameras. When you go out in public, you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. We know that. We get that. In fact, my videos, I'm filming people in their cars with their license plates not blurred.

[00:04:13]I'm a private citizen filming in public other private citizens. I have no power or authority over them. Neither of us have that reasonable expectation of privacy when we're out and about doing our daily things. But the government is different [music] because the government has the power and the authority to imprison you. They don't have the [music] right to mass surveillance. They don't get to record everyone to bypass individual warrants and treat everybody like a suspect and then just later go back to a database, search and find the criminals or find the crimes. They don't have that ability. They don't have that right. Your rights are to protect you from the government. Your rights put a limit on the government's power and authority. The government has found a way to use a private company to surveil you and then like here in Washington state making it illegal for us to request the pictures to request the data from the government because they say sorry that's private. When you took the pictures it was public but now all of a sudden it's private. Do you recall the TV show Person of Interest? That was science fiction then. Now it's a reality. The technology that's available right now is that you will be walking down the street and for whatever reason, whether you do something wrong or you don't do something wrong, [music] and they decide that they want to look for you, they type into a computer or over a radio and they say 5'5, you know, middle-aged male, blonde hair, blue shirt, orange logo, blue pants, heading north on Milwaukee Avenue. Those cameras will be everywhere and the AI is reading that. That's exactly what these data centers are for. It requires a massive amount of processing [music] and within seconds they will have you absolutely tagged and know your location. When you think of pre-rime, you think of Minority Report with Tom Cruz. That's science fiction. Well, welcome into the room Alpha Vision. And it is AI software that connects to any existing camera infrastructure and literally processes pre-rime. It profiles people based on how slow they walk, how long they're loitering, what clothes they're wearing, what their gender is, ethnicity, all of that. And then it notifies the police before that person has done anything wrong. What about the people who say, "Hey, I don't do anything wrong, so what do I have to fear?" Well, personally, I don't know you, and I would highly doubt that you don't do anything wrong. There are enough laws in this country that you right now watching this, you're breaking them. That if anyone, any law enforcement were to take a microscope or a magnifying glass to you in your life, they would absolutely find a crime. Now, you may live a boring life. Well, the rest of us don't live boring lives. We don't want the government putting us in a fishbowl watching us and waiting for us to make a mistake so that we can be punished. For instance, [music] what happens if you go to an anti-government protest? Do you want the government logging everywhere that you've been knowing that you went there?

[00:07:22]What happens if someone you know has an abortion and it's not legal in their state and they cross state lines? Do you want that person tracked by the government because you know they did it?

[00:07:32]They tracked a young woman using flock across multiple states [music] because of that. What happens when this administration changes or the next administration changes and the politics flip back and forth? Who's in control of the searching? Who's in control of the tracking? And now I'm hoping that you understand just how important [music] this is. We are not a crop to be harvested. And we are not a flock of sheep that needs to be managed. That [music] is why we have a problem with mass surveillance.

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