Sen. Josh Hawley has announced a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee investigation into Flock cameras. Now as much as I like the idea of something actually happening? I’m running a little low in the faith of Committee investigations. But something is better than nothing. Americans shouldn’t be comfortable about these cameras one little bit.
We keep seeing Flock (I use flock as a name for ALL surveillance cameras by the way) discribed as ‘License Plate Readers’ but hopefully we’re all aware that cameras take pictures of everything. Not just license plates. We all know that, right? And what happens to all that data these cameras collect? Why, you’d need giant data centers to process all that data! Hmmm… makes you wonder.
Here’s Sen Hawley’s post about the investigation.
Hawley’s letter to Flock’s CEO highlights documented cases of data misuse by law enforcement, high false positive rates leading to wrongful arrests, and demands full disclosure on data access and safeguards by September 8, 2026.
Full disclosure on data access and safeguards? That’s it? How about ‘No Flock or surveillance cameras’! How about that? Let’s take a look around the internet and see what people are doing about Flock Cameras.
Vivek? This isn’t going to cut it. You need to ban them. Not ‘insure that blah blah blah’ doesn’t happen. Ban the things.
Who knew?
It’s mass surveillance
Ron. You gotta do more than this. Ban the things!
This! This right here.
I hope,as you do, that this Commitee Hearing on flock cameras isn’t going to be a one and done and then disappear after the midterms are over with no big answers or possible legislation on the horizon. One thing I have learned about this whole thing is that private citizens have no legal rights to any information gathered about them by these cameras. That’s absolutely shocking and territlfying ,plus not a world I want to live in. My concern is who is monitoring all of this and what could they possibly do with it. Surveillance cameras outside businesses to catch people robbing or vandalizing it ,as well as, Ring doorbells have their place if you want them. That’s your choice ,but flock cameras should not be forced on upon us like some sort of Orwellian nightmare. I’m hoping for a complete ban of these cameras nationwide. I have to say,I really like that pressure sprayer idea. It’s time to de-flock America.
Dig it! We’re all getting hip to the fact that nothing changes after a committee hearing. And this isn’t about who is giving the data to whom or data security. It’s about a big fat ‘NO’ to these devices. Tada! Somebody put me in charge! I’m fired up!