Latest / Macroaggressions / #671: Get the Flock Outta Here | Jason Bassler
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- 5:04Little bit more fun than the surveillance state creep, but this is the right person to talk to about it
- 5:09Please welcome to the show our good friend Jason Bassler
- 5:13It's always good to have Jason Bassler from the free thought project back on the show. How are you?
- 5:18Good to see you doing well Charlie. Thank you so much, man
- 5:21Always a pleasure to be on with you always enjoy our conversations. Yeah
- 5:24I mean you guys are you are starting to get a reputation as being the flock camera guy
- 5:30the guy who knows quite a bit about it and
- 5:33This is become you know, I have I feel differently about this on the one hand
- 5:41It's frustrating that we live in a world in which we have flock cameras being installed
- 5:46But I'll tell you I've been a bit white-pilled in the sense that
- 5:50The response from the general public has been universal
- 5:54Discussed towards it. So I guess I feel a little bit better. You've been all over this
- 5:58What are what's your overriding feelings about this whole industry and the response of the general public to this?
- 6:06I'm loving it man. I'm loving every second of it and
- 6:10You know it to touch on your point there and you know, I'm very humble and modest
- 6:14I try never to really speak of myself and you know these grandiose ways
- 6:19But but I was just at Larkin Rose's conference in Sedona this past weekend
- 6:23And I actually had four different people who I respect come up to me and ask me the same exact question like man
- 6:29That you've really been the guy who has brought this onto the the flock stuff into the national conversation and or at least one of
- 6:36them, you know and
- 6:38For people that you know, I really value their opinions. I think they're intelligent smart people
- 6:43So the fact that I've had several people including yourself actually put me in this category. I'm honored
- 6:49You know, I'm honored. I'm that means I'm doing my job effectively
- 6:51It means that my my techniques and my strategies seem to be working
- 6:56So I'm all for it man. And you know, it it really is encouraging especially
- 7:03You know, we've been doing this for a long time. Charlie
- 7:05We've we've basically documented an outline the dumbing down of America to a pretty great extent, you know
- 7:11And of course we had some flashes of hope there that the COVID years we saw some significant pushback and stuff like that
- 7:17But right now I do feel like this is a very organic
- 7:21very grassroots
- 7:23Movement and it has some momentum behind it
- 7:26And it's not just the Liberty nerds people like us who you know sit in front of the computer and talk about these things
- 7:32It's your everyday people. It's the average normie and and honestly, I think it's three fold
- 7:38You know, if you don't mind me expanding on this a little bit because I've been thinking about it
- 7:40And I do think there is a grassroots movement here
- 7:44It's mostly being stirred up and created by the viral online posts
- 7:49And it do feel like it is a bit of a continuation from the Overton window shifting away
- 7:53from the mainstream opinions from the the corporate talking points and all the real
- 8:00distrust of authority in our institutions that really kind of was birth out of the COVID
- 8:06debacle and so
- 8:07I think that's a big part of it
- 8:09I think groups like D flock are also really playing a part because it seems like now more than ever
- 8:14We've become a little more organized. We're starting to actually have
- 8:18Multiple websites not just one or two, but like multiple websites that are documenting and tracking this stuff. We're also seeing
- 8:26groups in real life like I think there was a couple of them that were just outed not too long ago operation flock out
- 8:32Which is supposed to be this nationwide movement and then knock the flock in the med in the Midwest that are basically inspiring people to
- 8:42Physically take down these cameras now
- 8:44I guess we could probably get into that and some of the pros and cons about that idea
- 8:48But nonetheless, I mean it does feel like there is very
- 8:52There is this viewer very real movement the mainstream touching on it
- 8:56The news is all over it whether it be mainstream or your local news
- 9:01They seem to have picked up and kind of caught wind of the fact that this is a very viral topic and in second
- 9:06I would say that this is the first opportunity
- 9:11That we the American people have where we're seeing the representation of a surveillance state
- 9:17That has been ushered in by the Trump administration. Let's be that be clear about that
- 9:21I mean yes, some of it started under Biden as well
- 9:23But now the surveillance state is physically being represented in their streets in their neighborhoods
- 9:29And they've basically are understanding that there's these polls that are tracking them tracking the people tracking monitoring
- 9:38Logging all their movements and people are upset and frustrated about it
- 9:41They are tired of you know, the the ruling class basically exploiting them taking advantage of them
- 9:48And now there's this multi-billion dollar company. That's profiting from tracking and monitoring and logging logging their movements, you know
- 9:55And so it seems perfect sense and make perfect sense to me
- 10:00I know last year there was a lot of anger and frustration and scorn
- 10:05Centered on Palantir, but Palantir isn't on every corner in every neighborhood, you know
- 10:10So it's like this is one of the first times that we're actually having a
- 10:15physical response to the surveillance state and I think lastly that the old heads people like us who remembered all
- 10:22The depth of the surveillance apparatus all the stuff that the Snowden leaks talked to us and told us about that the prism program
- 10:28I mean all that stuff. I mean we've been up fed up with it and aware of it for over a decade
- 10:34And we know that you know, this isn't anything new. It's just kind of a newer wave of surveillance tech
- 10:40That's clearly
- 10:41fueling an industry. So
- 10:44I'm all for it man. I'm really happy that this is happening now, of course
- 10:49Because we are thinkers we're critical thinkers
- 10:51there are already a number of people starting to come out and saying that this is even a Psyop the whole anti-flock thing and
- 10:59People like James Lee who you know, I've had on my podcast. He's a he's a great guy good thinker
- 11:04But I think they see an opportunity here to kind of twist the the gears around a little bit and to maybe point out
- 11:10some type of different culprit and we could get into all that but I think it's funny that the
- 11:16Overwhelming majority of people are so on board with this that now the conspiracy theories are starting to create
- 11:22These kind of conspiracies that justify what's happening, you know
- 11:25Well, I could see it if he was saying and I don't know what James Lee's position is on this necessarily
- 11:32But if if the point is it's not just flock then I would I would agree with him there that it that it's that it's been this
- 11:41this amazing
- 11:44Specific focus on the company flock when we also have axon we have recor we have Motorola
- 11:51Solutions we have quorum we have some other companies that are doing this as well, so I guess on the one hand
- 11:59I I'm glad grateful and a little bit surprised that the mainstream media is talking about it
- 12:05I hope that but I could see them making a big deal about it
- 12:10just being this one company and then
- 12:13Everybody's ire is directed at this at flock and maybe they put flock out of business and they say up
- 12:20We've we've solved the problem
- 12:21Meanwhile, all these competitors are out there who's with names that you don't recognize doing the exact same thing
- 12:28Is that is that a concern that you have that they maybe the flock is is
- 12:33Is is taking all the blame for this in deflecting it away from some of the other co-conspirators
- 12:41Well, we know that the old bait and switch and deflection is one of the oldest tricks of the ruling class
- 12:46You know, I certainly get that but I don't think it's necessarily
- 12:50Specifically centered just on flock. I think even if all the flock cameras were taken down in a city
- 12:57And acts on cameras or put back up or Motorola cameras or put back up the the automated license plate readers
- 13:02I still think people are gonna have this very real reaction to it. I don't think that the name flock specifically
- 13:10I don't think it's that the name specifically that people have an issue with I think it's just the idea that they're being tracked in their vehicles
- 13:18They're being monitored. They're being logged and so I think regardless of what company is doing that
- 13:25People are going to have this real visceral reaction now. I could be wrong
- 13:30But I'd hope not it just feels like flock is the the rally cry right now because it is well
- 13:36it is the industry leader first of all, but second of all, it's a very memorable name and
- 13:41You know, we're seeing these things everywhere. There's there's certainly much more prevalent than the Motorola
- 13:46versions of the automated license plate reader, so I
- 13:51Don't I don't really see it being an issue to be completely honest
- 13:53I really feel like that this ire and this anger is legitimate and it's not something that's necessarily being propped up regardless of the
- 14:00Name of the company or the brand that you know these cameras are
- 14:04Good, you know being good. I hope so. I hope it's a a principled approach and not
- 14:10Something that just gets bogged down in the brand name. You know, they pull out the CEO
- 14:15They say he's the bad guy and they make him the villain and then they sink him somewhere and give the impression that
- 14:23I'm I'm hoping that it it I'm hoping that it doesn't matter what name is on it
- 14:29It's that the that the people are concerned about their
- 14:33their
- 14:34Just the fact that they're being watched. What is it?
- 14:38That they're doing with all the information, you know, they're because you can gather a lot of data
- 14:44But some of it is useful. Some of it isn't in the case of license plate readers
- 14:50They can see where who's coming and going of course. I can understand where there's value in that
- 14:55But then once they have all of this information
- 14:58is it being
- 15:01It's it being
- 15:03resold is it being you know the way Google does targeted advertisements
- 15:08I mean, could you imagine targeted advertisements for brands that have access to the these
- 15:15ALPR's that are like they know where you are geographically at what time and then they could target an ad to hit you with a Dunkin Donuts
- 15:24Text message to hit your phone right about the time you're about to drive up to a Dunkin Donuts
- 15:28I mean I can my mind goes in some pretty dark places with this
- 15:32What have you found is like the the whole purpose of the information?
- 15:38That they're collecting
- 15:40Well, first of all, let me just back up just slightly just because you mentioned the flock CEO
- 15:45And I don't know if you've caught this recently
- 15:47But all of a sudden out of nowhere that the flock CEO Garrett Langley is now apologizing for calling D flock a group of terrorists
- 15:56I actually came out on a mainstream
- 15:59outlets and
- 16:00Maybe there's just one or an interview that got you know republished, but so this is kind of strange
- 16:06This is kind of unique and new this isn't something we've seen from flock before in fact. We've always
- 16:12Seen that flock has actually turned off the comments on their
- 16:16Twitter account so anytime they would post any type of positive, you know PR puff piece or whatever
- 16:21Nobody would ever be able to comment on it
- 16:23Well, they've changed that and now they're actually starting to reply and respond to people who are critical of flock products
- 16:30So I've had them twice now and the past week respond to a couple of my tweets
- 16:35Now they won't have a back-and-forth, you know, I respond back to them and then that's that so
- 16:40You know, they're they're not interested in having a dialogue
- 16:43I think it's just trying to preserve the brand obviously and I think that's normal. They're kind of in crisis control right now
- 16:49I think they've realized that you know all this
- 16:52Attention on them is probably ultimately going to be hurting their bottom line
- 16:56We just saw the LAPD cancel their their contracts just recently and I know there's speculation that you know
- 17:02Who knows they're gonna renegotiate or they'll probably put a different
- 17:05ALL PR reader in there that the city-wide or whatever, but
- 17:10Nevertheless, you know to answer your question Charlie
- 17:13Nobody really knows of course and this is the problem with a company like flock is because they have been so manipulative
- 17:20They have been so deceptive and they haven't been transparent with
- 17:24Majority of their their business operations. So they claim that all the footage all the information all the tracking is
- 17:31Only retained for 30 days and then after that it's all deleted from their systems, but here's the thing
- 17:38We just saw a recently a sheriff who
- 17:41Claims that they found something worthwhile within the flock footage, right? And that's what majority of this
- 17:47Positioning is is for safety right for law enforcement to be able to do their jobs more effectively more efficiently
- 17:53So this sheriff just recently claimed that he isn't actually going to be deleting any of the L LR
- 18:01AL PR data because
- 18:05It's all now according to him all part of the investigation
- 18:09So within this general vicinity of whatever one or two cameras where this crime the supposed crime took place now
- 18:16He is going he's gonna be breaking the contract with flock to be able to
- 18:21Maintain that data and hold on to it for any length of period that they stay deem necessary for the investigation
- 18:27So as you could already imagine this is being abused
- 18:32That's just one case, you know, we've heard at least 20 plus officers now abusing the flock camera databases
- 18:39Looking up romantic interests looking up ex-partners looking up people that are visiting abortion clinics
- 18:46All this is happening and it's gonna continue to happen until there's some type of guardrails or some type of boundaries that are outlined
- 18:52By each individual police department and we haven't really seen that yet and another issue here is that
- 19:00Any time there's a national emergency as we both know all the rules go out the window, right? So who's to say that?
- 19:07There's some type big terrorist attack Trump, you know, there's another Trump assassination something like that
- 19:12Then all of them automatically the rules are gonna change right and this has happened over and over again
- 19:18And it gets even more difficult when there is a private public partnership like the flock and a lot of these local
- 19:26Municipalities local police departments and stuff. So it is hard to tell exactly where it's gonna go, but
- 19:33We already know that flock isn't being transparent. We already know that these systems are being abused
- 19:37So the idea that that's it's not going to be in the future
- 19:42It is highly unlikely and of course they're gonna tell us the opposite and that's exactly what you know
- 19:47Why flock has become out of the shadows more or less to start defending their products because they realize they're losing the info war
- 19:55And a lot of this stuff which is very legitimate that people are reporting on as far as the misuse the abuse
- 20:01You know, it's only gonna continue to give them a black eye
- 20:07Where are they getting where does flock or any of these companies get their
- 20:13Authorization they're doing it at the city level
- 20:15They're not doing it at the state level. Is that the reason why we see these
- 20:20Do we
- 20:21We see the the data center
- 20:24City council meetings where they all the council members vote for a data center and everybody in the audience is screaming at them
- 20:31Do we ever have these city council meetings where we get to discuss the role of these cameras in in the society?
- 20:39Or is this just getting rammed through without any sort of due process?
- 20:45So just recently I put together a tweet
- 20:49Which actually turned out to be an article for the last American Vega bond
- 20:52Which was eight ways to take down a flock camera without a saw-saw and that is actually one of the biggest parts is trying to identify
- 21:01The contracts so if you know when the contracts are being signed when the dates they're actually going to be
- 21:08Putting up these cameras. There is much more of a likelihood
- 21:12You're actually going to be able to push back
- 21:14The same thing is happening with the data centers a lot of times communities don't actually know that they're going up
- 21:20They're going in until after it's too late
- 21:22after you know breaking of the ground and everything starts to
- 21:27Start happening so that is one of the biggest issues right now is that we have to be aware of you know
- 21:33What's happening in our cities? We need to be involved and I know as anarchists
- 21:38It kind of it pains me to say that because I don't want to be involved
- 21:41But at the same time it is important that people who are paying attention do get involved with their local city council
- 21:48and there are a bunch of different websites right now that could actually help us that locates flock cameras that
- 21:56Actually tell you, you know, whether they're in your neighborhood
- 22:01And there there are ways that we can continue to do this without necessarily having to involve the local government
- 22:07But at the end of the day
- 22:09Yes, and this is one of the things that flock stresses is that they're actually not in charge of how their products are being used
- 22:16Once the contracts are signed they defer all responsibility onto the law enforcement
- 22:22institution the
- 22:23The department who is actually putting it up and I get that I mean that actually seems like it makes sense
- 22:29but at the same time it really does
- 22:33It really does make it easier for them to not take any responsibility when these things are misused and I think people are having a hard time
- 22:41connecting those dots because
- 22:43You know we we understand that the technology itself is the problem and it's exactly what government always does right they point the finger
- 22:51They pass the buck so basically
- 22:55The department is the people who are going to be in charge of any type of abuse
- 23:00They're all supposed to be telling us, you know, how effective they are. I mean there there is a bunch of different ways that we can
- 23:08Actually request information from our local city councils to
- 23:12Determine if they're being effective
- 23:15If you know what kind of first of all one of the most important things before they even go up is a private privacy review
- 23:22And I know it probably failed to mention that here, but
- 23:25Most cities don't do this but we can start demanding that before they even go up that we have a privacy review
- 23:32And actually ask the governments who are spending money on this surveillance technology, you know
- 23:38What is it going to do to privacy? What are the risks?
- 23:41How is our data protected?
- 23:43All these types of things, you know, how long is the data going to be retained for I mean of course
- 23:49Flock will give us a certain amount of answers
- 23:50But it's important to hold the feet there the city council's feet to the fire with a lot of this stuff
- 23:55And so I think what it's actually called is a privacy impact assessment
- 24:00And so PIA I only think there's a handful of cities Seattle San Francisco
- 24:05I made a post on this not too long ago that actually require it
- 24:09But seeing that the surveillance state is being rolled out
- 24:13Under the Trump administration and it's hitting all of our cities at the same time
- 24:17This is something that we should all become much more familiar with the privacy impact assessment
- 24:21Especially if there's any type of data centers being talked about or flock cameras
- 24:26So there really is so much more to do and I would just appoint your audience to my article
- 24:33At the last American Vega Bond
- 24:35Which was called eight ways to remove flock cameras without a saw-saw
- 24:39And that gives you a breakdown of pretty much every way that you can even use FOIA requests
- 24:45To really just put the pressure on your your local city government and let them know that you're watching
- 24:51Let them know that you're you're paying attention and hopefully you know with any luck you could get them
- 24:58Taken out before they even go up you could have them completely cancel the contract before they're even put up in your town
- 25:04And then our goal is getting republished on activist post as well
- 25:08Of course I didn't mean as it should when I saw it I was like yeah this one's going up
- 25:14I wonder about some of these technicalities. I saw there's a guy on X who's known as like the guardrail guy
- 25:21His child was killed by a faulty guardrail and he's been going around obviously making noise with guardrails
- 25:30But now he's turned his attention to flock cameras as well as far as their installation
- 25:33Is there a technicality where we might be able to get them removed based on this guardrail stipulation?
- 25:40Yeah, absolutely, and it's funny that you mentioned that because
- 25:43Garrett Langley once again that the CEO flock just publicly announced on his Twitter that he actually met up with the guardrail guy
- 25:50Probably one of the more high-profile critics of his and they're going to now
- 25:56Try to do what they can do a better job to actually you know put these things up safely
- 26:01Again though that kind of contradicts flocks positioning before because that wasn't something that was necessarily supposed to be under their purview
- 26:09It's supposed to be under the city's purview and you know all the city's laws and regulations and statutes and all that stuff
- 26:16But you're right. I don't have all the specifics on that but as I've seen a number of videos
- 26:22Pointing out that these flock cameras are installed incorrectly and so that's just one one more way to really
- 26:29Put the pressure on them especially if there are already cameras that are set up and established in your town
- 26:34I mean this is something that is dangerous, you know because there needs to be some type of breakaway system with these poles
- 26:41And if not then they become you know basically just a
- 26:46Danger hazard to you your family anybody who's driving on these roads
- 26:50So yeah, absolutely something just one more way to hold their feet to the fire absolutely Charlie
- 26:55Yeah, and and they're a danger in the sense of what they're recording and their role in society not just being a
- 27:03Immovable pole on the side of the road. It's a dangerous precedent that they're setting here
- 27:10We've got is this American hardware
- 27:14Are these American cameras? I mean because the first place my mind goes is like okay well
- 27:21You've got hardware and software and
- 27:25I can just I can think of the ramifications of some
- 27:30Foreign entity
- 27:32Getting access to all the flock cameras, I mean could you imagine if you could tap in from a software standpoint
- 27:40And have access to all these cameras you would be pulling massive amounts of data
- 27:44So is there and of course you mentioned
- 27:49The Snowden documents from a while ago
- 27:51I immediately think of vault seven and and the sort of capabilities of the CIA up until what 2013
- 28:00extrapolate out where it's gone since then but
- 28:03It feels like maybe the technology like backdoors
- 28:06Layton
- 28:09Places where the where they're hiding waiting to be activated from you know
- 28:13I don't know the technicalities and capabilities of this stuff
- 28:16But I can use my my little tinfoil hat brain to figure out that this could be
- 28:22So valuable in the wrong hands is it built to be in the wrong hands by design
- 28:31From my research no and I guess that might be this the one silver lining in this right and
- 28:38You're basically just highlighting that the tick tock effect right I mean that was what yeah
- 28:44And of course it got bastardized and it got weaponized and it turned into this you know state
- 28:50It turned into this this all their big thing that you know and
- 28:55Ended up being become you know manipulated for Larry Ellison and his family to to buy but
- 29:02Nevertheless from what I could tell there are
- 29:06Automated license plate reader companies that are in the US that do use Chinese hardware
- 29:11I think there's a couple there
- 29:14Hick vision
- 29:16Uniview that supply these types of cameras and then same with Israelis
- 29:20There's a couple Israeli firms any vision brief cam, but from what I could tell they're they're not significant
- 29:26They're not major players
- 29:28But it these are companies that seem kind of small and obscure to
- 29:33The average American but apparently they are bigger players on the the global surveillance
- 29:40Scale so
- 29:42I think that even though flock and Motorola and axon you know aren't necessarily in bed with these foreign governments
- 29:50This does seem to be something that we probably should be aware of that's possible
- 29:55And there are already companies that are embedded into the US surveillance state at a much smaller level
- 30:02But at the end of the day Charlie like who's the really the bigger threat than the American government
- 30:08You know and of course I have to have that caveat because yeah, oh yeah
- 30:12Every every aspect and every way that they can weaponize surveillance against us
- 30:16It sure feels like they have been over the past year and a half so oh, yeah
- 30:21I agree. It's not as though the Israeli government is willing to do something to us that our government isn't also willing to do
- 30:28To us probably first and and more efficiently I it's it's
- 30:34What's the scope of this problem? I mean Hakeem Anwar built the AI Dennis data center.org and is this great
- 30:42Resource where you can kind of tap in and see on a visual level this map and kind of puts it in perspective
- 30:50When you see like holy moly like we really have a problem here. Is there anything like that?
- 30:56I know that there's a lot of these companies out here who are busy identifying the cameras
- 31:00But do we have an idea of what the total number of cameras are in the country?
- 31:05Already where they think that number is going to go
- 31:08I mean I remember hearing about facial recognition cameras in China a decade ago and they were in the hundreds of millions back then
- 31:14So yeah, I know where it could go. Where is it right now?
- 31:19And where's it going?
- 31:21You don't sound very enthusiastic asking that Charlie
- 31:24I don't
- 31:26I'm sorry I was a bit preloaded of a question
- 31:28You can see it on my face. I'm like terrified what the answer might be
- 31:32Yeah, no I get it man. This is a disturbing and bleak topic and I'm only smiling here because I'm talking to you man
- 31:39I always enjoy our conversations but
- 31:42Yeah, I get it it is overwhelming and
- 31:46There isn't really any way to quantify
- 31:49How many in total there are
- 31:51Because the networks are kind of fragmented right the local police use them
- 31:55There's HOA's that use them. There's private
- 31:58Parking lots that use them
- 32:00Border security uses them. I mean there there isn't really any one national
- 32:04Registry that exists and so that's part of the problem as well
- 32:08But we do have organizations like D flock which I already mentioned they've mapped a hundred and twenty thousand
- 32:15License plate readers in the US
- 32:17A hundred thousand of those are flock cameras and they lead the industry
- 32:21But other companies which we've already touched on today axon, you know motorola vigilant
- 32:27There's quite a few others
- 32:28I really kind of only focus on motorola and axon because those are the two bigger players are already really kind of established
- 32:33But it doesn't mean that there aren't other companies that are kind of up and coming
- 32:37but flock basically claims that they have
- 32:41Their product in I think six thousand cities the CEO as I mentioned just a
- 32:45Recent interview and he said six thousand for about a year and a half. They were
- 32:49Settled on five thousand, but obviously things are expanding
- 32:53I've saw that there's three thousand law enforcement agencies that are using them across the country and
- 32:59one of the nice things about def lock is that they actually do have a
- 33:04A video that shows you the real-time
- 33:07Since I think it started in 2023 so over the past three years how quickly
- 33:13each year
- 33:15These things are expanding with a map that shows the little dots, you know across the country of where they're at and
- 33:21Obviously that the cities have a much higher concentrated area, but there really isn't any escaping them now. They're they're everywhere and
- 33:29Again part of my issue with this is that well, okay, maybe
- 33:34Maybe they're not being abused to the extent that they could be but who's to say once all this architect are this
- 33:42You know this infrastructure goes up who's to say it's not going to be abused in the future
- 33:47And we know that the the government the US government has a long history of mission creep especially in the Romulus surveillance
- 33:54And so I'm worried about something like you know, we were just talking about
- 33:59foreign aspects of this and potential you know foreign
- 34:06Entities that could be somehow involved
- 34:08But even like company like Palantir that is so deeply embedded in our own government if they were to somehow be connected with flock
- 34:17That's like the future of the US surveillance state that's fused, you know
- 34:20And so that's where I start to become a little more concerned about things because if there is some type of again national emergency
- 34:29Some type of cyber attack who knows some anything that they want to use as being in it, you know a reason to justify
- 34:36further expanding
- 34:38Some of the guidelines are in place right now
- 34:40This is going to be a full-on drag net across the country and there isn't going to be any escaping it right now
- 34:47We have tools there as I mentioned there's websites
- 34:50That could actually outline a map for you to travel from point A to point B without getting caught up in any of
- 34:56the flock camera
- 34:57automated license plate readers, but
- 35:00In the next few years, I don't feel as optimistic about that including
- 35:05We haven't even got into this yet, but there's
- 35:08Vigilant solutions, which is a company that is that was bought up by Motorola who is now starting to also
- 35:16use Bluetooth tracking
- 35:19alongside these
- 35:21Automated license plate readers. So if you happen to drive by they could tap into your phone
- 35:25they could tap into your
- 35:27AirPods and
- 35:29Further track you further get all that data and information from you
- 35:33So this is only expanding further and further. This is becoming a pretty sizable significant industry
- 35:40Flock's valuation from last year to this year increased three billion dollars
- 35:44So I can only foresee that there's going to be even more people entering this industry
- 35:51and trying to kind of
- 35:53Capitalize on the lucrative nature of it, especially when law enforcement is handing out contracts like candy, you know
- 36:00and so yeah
- 36:02We could get into all that as well, but it is a little concerning
- 36:07Yeah, they flock clearly has the first mover advantage here
- 36:11They've as you mentioned they've they're in 6,000 cities. How did they do that? How was there?
- 36:17Who's financing them?
- 36:19Who's on their board that is connected into the government? I know how this usually works
- 36:24I mean who who's pulling the strings and opening doors for this
- 36:28Company to come out of nowhere and be worth quite a bit of money and have a
- 36:33I mean, it's not a monopoly, but it's a pretty good head start on everybody else
- 36:38I mean or do we have questions about their financing? They didn't come out of Incutail by any chance. Did they I mean this?
- 36:46Something that might have I don't know a military intelligence
- 36:52Fingerprints all or money all over it
- 36:55Sure. Yeah. Well, Incutail is probably the first place that we should always look for these types of things, of course Louie Gilman
- 37:03The guy who is the kingmaker. He's the one who made Peter Thiel the kingmaker maker initially, but
- 37:09Oddly enough, I haven't seen a lot of evidence that there is
- 37:14Backdoors deals going on or maybe one mover and shaker who is really facilitating a lot of these contracts now
- 37:20What I did find that is interesting
- 37:23maybe not too
- 37:26Unsurprising to to your audience, but
- 37:29Federal public safety grants are routine routinely used to install flock license plate cameras
- 37:35So that the feds are basically giving out a certain amount of money for local governments
- 37:42Why I should say local taxpayers to pay for these things and here's the kicker is that once they go up?
- 37:48Then it ultimately lands back on the city to continue the maintenance on these things. So
- 37:54That is I think probably the one and that the biggest ways that they're going up is that they're getting
- 38:00Cities police departments are getting grants
- 38:03Federally for these things to go up. So there is incentive by the federal government as well
- 38:08Which you know is in itself and we've seen how these things expand, right?
- 38:13The 1033 program the militarization of police. I mean that was all grants as well
- 38:18That was all giving the old ex-military equipment to police departments. So
- 38:25That is one way that they're definitely going up and I'm sure just aggressive lobbying
- 38:29I think as well that you know, police departments have kind of bought into the
- 38:35Advertising of this and you know to be fair
- 38:39It does work to a certain extent, you know, we see
- 38:43police departments local police departments making posts about how they found, you know, this
- 38:49Criminal who happened to be driving away and this model car or whatever. So I
- 38:54Don't think that it's completely lost in the sense that you know, these things are only specifically for surveillance
- 39:00but the problem is you're surveilling
- 39:02300,000 people to find one criminal right and I think most people have a big problem with that because
- 39:09Flock likes to say safety is a right a human right
- 39:13But I would argue that privacy is probably more aligned with being a human right
- 39:18Even that has arguments that go against it. I'm not saying it's bulletproof
- 39:22But compared to both of them safety or privacy
- 39:25I think privacy because as we know again as freedom lovers all these things the most tyrannical
- 39:32Actions are always based in some type of promise of safety, right? So
- 39:37This is just another one of those
- 39:39You said it's working. Is it working in the courts or the is the law enforcement able to get convictions?
- 39:46using this evidence
- 39:49Have they tried to get convictions with the new component of the flock cameras that you mentioned of the
- 39:55The device that's grabbing
- 39:58Bluetooth
- 39:59Information, I mean that seems like a huge privacy can of worms that like
- 40:04Inadmissible like holy shit. What are you doing? You don't have a warrant to be grabbing this information of cars that are just driving by
- 40:11I mean, this seems insane to me. Has it tested has it been tested through the court system yet?
- 40:17You know just recently I came across some information because I've always
- 40:22Shared with my audience and anytime I'm doing these interviews about flock that there was basically a legal gray area
- 40:27Like we didn't really know what the legality of this was because as you know
- 40:31I know first amendment auditors know there is really no reasonable expectation of privacy in public
- 40:37however
- 40:38It turns out that's only halfway true
- 40:40And especially when it comes to these automated license plate trackers
- 40:44So the US versus Jones in 2012
- 40:48Made clear that the long-term tracking of somebody's movements on public roads raises serious fourth amendment concerns
- 40:54And then we had a more recent ruling well almost 10 years ago now
- 40:58Carpenter versus the US which ruled that complying or compiling I should say all-encompassing record of a person's movement
- 41:05Goes beyond ordinary public exposure
- 41:08So and I know there was just recently a supreme court decision on this as well
- 41:13And I haven't had a chance to dig into that completely, but if I had to speculate
- 41:18I think it aligns with both of these rulings and decisions from previous years
- 41:23So if that's the case it does appear that these cameras are operating in an illegal sense
- 41:29Not to say that flock and their army of lawyers aren't going to try to oppose that and do everything they can to you know
- 41:36preserve their business model
- 41:38but it does it does appear with the more information that I've recently obtained that there is
- 41:45Some legality involved with this that I guess they
- 41:49Just decided to ignore when they you know
- 41:52We're contracting over the past three or four years with all these police departments
- 41:57I would be hard to I'd be hard to believe that they weren't aware of these two rulings
- 42:03But there must be some more legal ambiguity there or else I would assume that they
- 42:10Probably wouldn't have moved forward but
- 42:13Again, this kind of comes back down to how the state wants to view it and how the state wants to rule it
- 42:19We know a legal monopoly on justice. We'll always side with
- 42:25These types of technologies with the type of infrastructure if it means that they have more control, you know, so I
- 42:31don't expect some type of fair
- 42:35Ruling if it does come down to the courts to eventually
- 42:39Kind of judge, you know, if this is legal or illegal
- 42:43But as far as the technology doing its job for law enforcement, I
- 42:51Think and once again, there is no database. That's you know, unfortunately, there's no
- 42:58mandated
- 43:00Database where you know, we there a registry where we could find out this information
- 43:04So we basically just have to go by what our local police department tell us that the PR
- 43:10and
- 43:11From what I could tell it's not like they're
- 43:14Completely useless, but again that you have to weigh the privacy for you know, what it's actually going to accomplish
- 43:21And it doesn't seem like it's it's worth it in the long run
- 43:26Reminds me of those sound recording
- 43:28Collecting devices that were they were putting on street corners and they said oh they would collect the noise if there was a shotgun down there
- 43:34It's like really that's
- 43:37That's how you're gonna determine crime is that it's just gonna pick up random noises and you're gonna interpret them
- 43:42And what if it's a car goes by and it's a backfire. Yeah, that sounds like a shotgun, too
- 43:46I mean, are you gonna send the SWAT team to some some poor bastard revving his car in his driveway?
- 43:51I mean, they probably will but probably ask you dude
- 43:54Is there any sort of legal precedent case law or anything that has been used to get red light cameras removed that could be
- 44:03modified and used for these
- 44:06license plate readers
- 44:10Not that I'm aware of I have heard stories though that and this is the thing is that these flock cameras are going everywhere
- 44:17They're again, they're not being installed correctly
- 44:19But they're also going up on private property, which is really strange and we've seen a number of people who've had them installed in their front yard
- 44:26Right next to the sidewalk, but actually legally technically on their property. So we have seen them be uninstalled because of that
- 44:34I've also heard cases of
- 44:36being pointed at somebody's driveway and that was enough to legally have it removed and
- 44:43Again, this all is kind of a legal gray area because
- 44:47About three months ago what we were finding was that when FOIA requests were placed on flock cameras
- 44:54The city itself wasn't quite sure how to adjudicate if these were private property or if these were public property
- 45:01And so because of that legal gray area there
- 45:04It gave people the opportunity to not only do a FOIA request on the camera
- 45:08But the camera footage and so cities started to kind of backpedal and backtrack and say whoa, whoa, whoa
- 45:15We could watch this footage. We could own this footage
- 45:17But the public cannot have access to and so we saw actually a number of cities take down the flock cameras
- 45:24Simply because they weren't sure legally how to proceed with the FOIA requests and legally if that footage
- 45:31That was being documented and recorded by the flock cameras was something that was private or public
- 45:37So I know there's a few other cases as well and all this stuff is moving so fast
- 45:42There really is a lot to keep your
- 45:44Your thumb on the the pulse of when it comes to the flock camera stuff
- 45:48But I'm pretty sure there was at least a couple more cameras in fact or a couple more incidents
- 45:52I should say in fact. I had a friend call me just recently who said that she
- 45:57Had her front license plate stolen and she reported that
- 46:02She was driving about a week later
- 46:04And she had several cops pull up on her within seconds on this deserted
- 46:09Road nobody around and it was because
- 46:12The system didn't actually register it correctly
- 46:16She still had her back license plate, but it didn't have she didn't have her front license plate
- 46:20So just that one miscommunication was enough of an error to have police
- 46:25Actually track her down after that was hit on one of the cameras and and stop her and thank God
- 46:30They were actually pretty reasonable about the whole thing, but that's just one of many
- 46:35Examples I remember reading maybe a few months back of somebody's license plate
- 46:39Being misread by one of these flock cameras what was supposed to be zero in the license plate was misread as an oh and
- 46:47They've been they were pulled over they were arrested even taken to jail
- 46:50These stories aren't uncommon
- 46:52So there is an error rate as well that we have to kind of consider when it comes to these things algorithms are far from being
- 46:58perfect at this point
- 47:01What if we took two of the worst
- 47:04Components of policing and put them together
- 47:08Flot cameras and civil asset forfeiture
- 47:11What if these guys these pirates along these corridors these interstate corridors that are notorious for cops pulling people over and taking their
- 47:20Money and things like that under the guise of drug trafficking corridors
- 47:26What can kind of gray area are we getting into now because the police have access to the footage
- 47:32Yeah, and a percentage of the police
- 47:37Budget comes from every year they expect to to have the money that they
- 47:41Retained from civil asset forfeiture. This is is this not giving them a very
- 47:49Murky sort of incentive structure here. Oh, it absolutely is it absolutely is and it's ripe for abuse
- 47:55You know once again, especially without any legitimate guardrails put in place
- 47:59I mean these guardrails should be put in place before the contracts are even signed but because
- 48:03So many people are unaware of these things
- 48:06I don't think there's enough demand for it even at the local level
- 48:11So that's just one more reason we need to be involved with this stuff guys and show up and show out
- 48:16at your local city meeting city local city council meetings, but
- 48:21These things while I'm not aware of any civil asset forfeiture abuse that has been
- 48:28Directly related to flock. I'm I'm sure it's going to happen. I'm sure it's just a matter of time Charlie, but we have seen
- 48:35federal agencies the alphabet agencies actually abusing these things and
- 48:40It's something that I haven't heard about as much over the past month or so
- 48:44But in the beginning of the year there was a story or two coming out at least once a week
- 48:48ice agents illegally tap into local police departments flock camera systems to find
- 48:56Illegal immigrant or whatever, you know, and I mean it wasn't just ice. It was DHS. It was the FBI. It was the ATF
- 49:04I mean all these agencies
- 49:06Recognize and realize the power of these automated license plate readers. And so they're illegally
- 49:12Going against policy and they're they're utilizing them and one other thing I should probably mention is that you know, we think of flock cameras
- 49:20There are multiple types of flock cameras. In fact, you were just mentioning the
- 49:25The microphones that I think I want was like shots shot scatter or something like that
- 49:31That was one company by itself
- 49:33But flock actually makes that same the very same device is called the flock Raven, which is a microphone
- 49:38So they actually have an arsenal of different products, which is the flock condor cameras
- 49:44Which are the black ones that most people see in their neighborhoods and then of course they have the aro drone
- 49:51Drones as well and that's part of their first responder fleet. That's all part of flock as well
- 49:57But they also have these unique cameras called the condor cameras and they're
- 50:02Circular they're in kind of like the round bubble casing and those have the pan-tilt zoom features
- 50:09Not only do they have the pan-tilt zoom. They also are able to be tapped into in real time
- 50:15so if
- 50:17Let's say one of these flock powered real-time crime centers
- 50:21One of these cameras aren't just going back to look through the footage
- 50:24It's already recorded through the automated license plate tracker
- 50:26They could actually go into real-time and watch people and that's one of the things that a lot of people have been up
- 50:34In arms about is because at first and again this goes back to flock being so deceptive
- 50:38They were telling us that
- 50:39It's only vehicles being tracked only vehicles to only license plates
- 50:43It just came across
- 50:45One of the flock representatives on an interview saying that not too long ago. It's just license plates
- 50:51But we're finding them in more and more places that don't even have any roads near them
- 50:56There people are documenting them bike paths swimming pools
- 50:59gymnastics training centers parks hiking trails, so they're going up all over the place and
- 51:07That's kind of the creepy part. That's the part that's creeping people out because this extends beyond
- 51:12The objective that they claim they are supposed to be here for and once again just continues to fuel the fire of
- 51:19The concept of mission creep, right?
- 51:22I mean, how many is going to be enough? Is there ever going to be enough?
- 51:25How many would they won't even tell us how many are up already? They only give us ballpark figures
- 51:29there is no transparency with this company and so I
- 51:34Think that's part of the PR push. That's why Garrett Langley and yes, that's his real name
- 51:39Langley is so interested in
- 51:42Trying to preserve the image right now because there isn't a lot of transparency and they've been very deceptive over the years
- 51:51The united nations has been pretty clear about
- 51:54their
- 51:55Vision for the future 15 minute cities agenda 2030
- 51:59This feels like it's part of that
- 52:01This feels like a good way to have a 15 minute city
- 52:04I think maybe the first time people hear that they envision on a where are you going to put the walls?
- 52:08It's like no, no, they're not actual walls. They're they're digital walls and
- 52:15They're invisible and maybe you know, you're on a 15 minute radius based on where your cell phone is
- 52:21But these these cameras feel like they'll play a role in this as well. Is this is are you finding any sort of?
- 52:30supra national
- 52:32Influence coming from these united nations types groups like that. Is there any international fingerprints on it because
- 52:41You know, you meant you just mentioned how creepy it would be where they could you know, they're they're they're seeing everything
- 52:47That's
- 52:48Clearly by design and who would want to see everything well the people putting the world government into place would want to see
- 52:54Everything would be beneficial to them. So I'm curious if there's been any sort of
- 52:59Uh international involvement in this
- 53:03Not so far not to um, you know the research I've had and I will certainly be the first person to report on it if that is the case
- 53:12unfortunately
- 53:14These things do exist. Fortunately, it doesn't seem like there is any
- 53:19overarching
- 53:20Influence or pressure campaigns right now, um, but it is the infrastructure once again of a surveillance state
- 53:27And I can't stress that enough guys because the safety aspect of it
- 53:32It's always always always been the the veneer for more control and I think that's ultimately what this is about
- 53:39It's making everything more observable
- 53:42more searchable more more linkable
- 53:45Um
- 53:46And just more control, you know use using data to manage populations
- 53:50I mean that's basically the direction that we're going
- 53:53and it's gonna be
- 53:56Stack on top of stacked here, right? It's not going to just be the the lrp l r l al pr. Sorry. Keep messing that up
- 54:04The automated license plate readers by themselves. It's going to be the cctv's
- 54:08It's going to be the drones. We're just talking about in fact. I just made a post earlier today about how
- 54:14Uh 6 000 plus now, uh police departments in the us have contracts with drone companies. So
- 54:23This is becoming more of a reality as well. I remember
- 54:2710 years ago in the police accountability movement
- 54:29We would talk about drones being in our skies at all times
- 54:33And people laugh about it. They thought it was unrealistic and now
- 54:37We're moving more to that direction and I think it's only a matter of time until
- 54:43All these cameras have facial recognition
- 54:46until they have other ways to track and observe our
- 54:51Unique identifiers like our gate
- 54:53Um stuff like that and you know
- 54:56This is just a part of the equation as well. And I know the people who
- 55:00Seem to be pro flock like to bring this up a lot, but our phones
- 55:04Obviously our phones are one of the biggest track phone location track trackers. I mean
- 55:10That is one of a huge issue as well on top of these other things the payment trails the body cameras
- 55:17um all these things
- 55:19But at least the phones are voluntary, right? Like we actually have an opportunity to leave our phone at home or not use certain apps
- 55:26Um, we don't have that opportunity with these license plate trackers
- 55:30We all have to use the roads. We all need to travel to do our you know stuff our daily life
- 55:36Um, so I think that's a pretty big distinguishing factor there
- 55:40So ultimately, yeah, I think it is a a full panopticon
- 55:44I think vehicles devices our faces our behaviors all these things are going to be tracked in the name of safety
- 55:51Um, and you know, it could be under the guise of something like climate policy
- 55:57Uh, we're already starting to see that, you know, and uh the uk the the u les
- 56:01Blade runners, you know taking down
- 56:04um all those cameras and so, uh
- 56:08I don't think it's necessarily about just the cameras itself
- 56:11It's about this world where surveillance becomes normalized, you know, we're we're constantly being observed
- 56:16And I think we all read a book about that a long time ago, you know, which was 1984
- 56:21I don't I don't think we want to live that lifestyle nor do I think we want to hand it over to our kids
- 56:26So, um now is the time guys. It's not five years from now. It's not two years from now
- 56:31Now is the time to be standing up and speaking out about this stuff and I know they're trying to
- 56:36Turn a lot of this stuff into a left right fight between us
- 56:40Because that's all they have left because people are from both sides of, you know
- 56:45Left and the right people who pay attention to this stuff liberty lovers people are just part of the normie class and
- 56:50Distracted and working their everyday lives
- 56:53Working and doing their everyday lives. I think we're all fed up and we're all starting to come together
- 56:58There really isn't any dividing line when it comes to being against the the Palantirs of the world and being against the
- 57:04Data centers and the flock cameras and stuff. So they're really trying their best to divide us on it
- 57:09but
- 57:09I think this is one thing that will unify us and we just got to stay strong because
- 57:14Once this infrastructure is rolled out, it's going to be much more difficult to roll back
- 57:17So mission creep is a thing and we got to stop it now
- 57:22Well, it's no mystery why you've become
- 57:25A leading voice in this your work with police in the police made you uniquely qualified
- 57:32To to tackle this you have been talking about this for a long time. Let's wrap up with this
- 57:36If someone's out here, they're listening they feel a little bit
- 57:41Well overwhelmed, I suppose, but they want to do something about it
- 57:46What's some actionable information? I mean, where can we make a difference?
- 57:50Is this is this going to happen on the local level? Is this something you got to get your sheriff involved in?
- 57:55Can we actually vote our way out of this?
- 57:57On a local level, where are the pressure points? I mean
- 58:01What can we do?
- 58:04Sure
- 58:05Yeah, well, you know again as anarchists
- 58:07I know we're skeptical of utilizing the apparatus of government
- 58:11But the more localized it is the more of the defensive voting and more of the defensive postures that we could take
- 58:17So I would say even though it might seem
- 58:21A futile it might not be your first choice of how to spend a
- 58:25Thursday afternoon or something
- 58:27I would say try to get involved with your local city politics if possible because our
- 58:32Voices do have an impact. I mean, we're seeing this
- 58:35Over and over again. I mean just the fact that the flock ceo is now
- 58:40Coming out and doing damage control. I mean that's that's huge. You know, I mean just we just saw LAPD cancel these contracts
- 58:46We're seeing
- 58:47Meta roll, you know, they tried to roll out one of their new AI programs and it got so much backlash that
- 58:54They actually had to cancel it, you know, I mean, there's example after example here
- 58:59Peter Thiel. He's fleeing to Argentina, right? Like he's he's had so much pressure put on him
- 59:04Or at least that's what they're telling us. He's fleeing to Argentina. So there are examples that when we utilize our voice
- 59:12It produces good things and that we can't have some type of effect and influence on how these things turn out
- 59:18So I would say very much get involved with that also just connect and plug in to
- 59:23Our allies that are fighting on team liberty. I mean D flock has been a wonderful resource. In fact, they're hosting
- 59:31This sunday two days from now
- 59:33It's like a week of action call
- 59:36I think it's at 5 p.m. EST
- 59:38So you could sign up for that at D flock and just tune in guys. They're going to give us the roadmap here at least
- 59:46how to do
- 59:47Stuff in your own area and that's also another great way to link with people and network
- 59:52Um, I already mentioned the foyer requests if you guys want to reach out to me
- 59:56I have my my website jasonbassler.com
- 59:59I'd be happy to give you the template for the foyer requests
- 1:00:02Just plug in your own city and you could send them off and the more that we could
- 1:00:08Utilize their own
- 1:00:10You know mechanisms against us including foyer requests the better make their lives difficult make them have to produce this information
- 1:00:17Um, as we are saying too. Yeah, if we can expose the unsafe flock installations
- 1:00:23With the the city council stuff. I mean that is just another angle that
- 1:00:28Holds their feet to the fire because these are their own standards that they're not living up to right
- 1:00:33Um, one of the other things that I would probably suggest
- 1:00:36Is rating and reviewing businesses in your area that do have flock cameras on their property
- 1:00:42the market always
- 1:00:45is
- 1:00:46Motivated by incentives right if they find that there are a lot of people are frustrated and pissed off and they're not no longer
- 1:00:52Going to their business because these things are up in their parking lots
- 1:00:55they're going to pull them out so if just
- 1:00:59Utilizing our voice the power and numbers being organized
- 1:01:02All these things are going to help us move in the right direction
- 1:01:05And there's already enough of a backlash online
- 1:01:08It shouldn't be too difficult to try to find people in your area
- 1:01:11And if if you haven't then you're the one you're the person that needs to organize and you're the person who needs to
- 1:01:16Take the initiative and take charge of this and become that leader in your area
- 1:01:20So I'm sure I could rattle off and a bunch of other stuff charlie
- 1:01:23But I think that's probably a pretty good place to start along with my eight ways
- 1:01:26To take down the flock cameras and maybe you could link to that or something
- 1:01:30But I'm going to I'm going to put the links to your websites down in the show notes
- 1:01:34Uh, what about the podcast that you do with matt agarist? Uh, where can people find that?
- 1:01:38Yeah, yeah. So the free thought project calm, uh, even though we've endured years of censorship
- 1:01:43We're still going strong. We're still putting out about two to three articles every day
- 1:01:47the free thought free thought project calm and we also have, um, our
- 1:01:52Podcast we do one a week and you could find them there or on spotify our apple podcast
- 1:01:58In fact charlie, I think we're overdue man. I can't remember the last time we had you on
- 1:02:01But I know it's been a couple years now. So let's do it. I'd love to have you back on brother
- 1:02:04Yeah, absolutely. That's jason basler everybody. He's out there actually doing it
- 1:02:08If you want to support his outstanding work, you'll find the links down in the show notes
- 1:02:12If you want to connect with me macro aggressions dot.io is the place to do that. Thanks everybody
- 1:02:17We'll talk to you again soon