ACLU: Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”

"...the company is also now apparently analyzing our driving patterns to determine if we’re “suspicious.” That means if your police start using Flock, they could target you just because some algorithm has decided your movement patterns suggest criminality...."

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

#privacy #policing #alpr #algorithms #crime

public response to the investigation: "oceangate spent all this R&D time and money to come up with this really fancy alerting system for detecting hull fractures, and when it alerted them to hull fractures they ignored the alert and kept operating regardless? what was the point of building it if they were just going to ignore the alerts? who even does that?"

me: *THOUSAND YARD STARE*

He took a long drag on his cigarette, before exhaling and turning to look at her.

“Well, it’s been 15 years. What do you say? Is it time? Should we take the plunge?”

She smiled at him, and took his hand.

“Let’s just leave the signatures in detect only mode for a couple more weeks.”