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#671: Get the Flock Outta Here | Jason Bassler (Clip) · Macroaggressions

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  This is the problem with a company like Flock is because they have been so manipulative,
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  they have been so deceptive, and they haven't been transparent with the majority of their
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  business operations.
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  So they claim that all the footage, all the information, all the tracking is only retained
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  for 30 days, and then after that, it's all deleted from their systems.
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  But here's the thing, we just saw recently a sheriff who claims that they found something
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  worthwhile within the Flock footage, and that's what the majority of this positioning is for
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  safety, for law enforcement to be able to do their jobs more effectively, more efficiently.
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  So this sheriff just recently claimed that he isn't actually going to be deleting any
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  of the ALPR data because it's all now, according to him, all part of the investigation.
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  So within this general vicinity of whatever one or two cameras where this crime,
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  the supposed crime took place, now he is going, he's going to be breaking the contract with Flock
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  to be able to maintain that data and hold on to it for any length of period that they deem
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  necessary for the investigation.
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  So as you could already imagine, this is being abused.
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  That's just one case.
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  We've heard at least 20-plus officers now abusing the Flock camera databases,
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  looking up romantic interests, looking up ex-partners, looking up people that are visiting
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  abortion clinics.
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  All this is happening, and it's going to continue to happen until there's some type
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  of guardrails or some type of boundaries that are outlined by each individual police department.
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  And we haven't really seen that yet.
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  And another issue here is that anytime there's a national emergency,
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  as we both know, all the rules go out the window.
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  So who's to say that there's some type of big terrorist attack?
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  Trump, there's another Trump assassination, something like that.
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  Then automatically, the rules are going to change.
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  And this has happened over and over again.
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  And it gets even more difficult when there is a private public partnership like the Flock
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  and a lot of these municipalities, local police departments and stuff.
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  So it is hard to tell exactly where it's going to go,
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  but we already know that Flock isn't being transparent.
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  We already know that these systems are being abused.
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  So the idea that it's not going to be in the future is highly unlikely.
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  And of course, they're going to tell us the opposite.
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  And that's exactly why Flock has come out of the shadows, more or less,
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  to start defending their products because they realize they're losing the info war.
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  And a lot of this stuff, which is very legitimate that people are reporting on.
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  As far as the misuse, the abuse, it's only going to continue to give them a black eye.