The article itself is from August, but after seeing Flock cameras at a local Lowe’s store that were missing from the DeFlock map, I thought it’d be worth bringing increased attention to such companies contributing to the propagation of Flock cameras. If there’s a Home Depot or Lowe’s near you that’s not on the DeFlock map already, it might just not have been added yet.
Worked at Lowe’s last year and was stunned with their surveillance capabilities. When known shoplifters pulled into the parking lot the manager in charge of security got an automatic ping from the license plate reader. They even had nicknames for the worst offenders! “Dumb and Dumber just pulled in.” There was facial recognition built in, but I can’t remember enough to talk about it accurately.
Did you know you can walk in, grab anything not bolted down and walk right out the door with no challenge? If it’s a large enough item they’ll call the cops, but they reserve that for large thefts, not power drills. Otherwise they just file your face and license plate in the system as a red flag.
Of course the people with all the Hank Hills coming in are fucking snitches and Nazi symps
There’s Flock cameras at two of the three entrances to the parking lot at my local home depot.
It’s probably 3 of 3 but nobody’s noticed the third one yet.
They’re pretty chonky. It’s a decent sized box with solar panels on them. The ones shown on deflock.me are pretty noticeable, I’ve looked pretty hard around the 3rd entrance. There’s a grocery store on that side and a few other smaller stores that share the parking lot.
I could be wrong, but I think any camera with an Internet connection could be a Flock camera. You don’t need solar panels or “chonk” (i.e. batteries) if it’s just hooked up to grid power.
That’s true, but both of the ones shown on deflock are chonky. I recently read that Ring doorbells are giving their data to Flock, probably other companies are too. So, we’re fucked. That being said, all of the cameras made by Flock are chonky. I’m guessing they have some compute in the box to do some AI recognition onboard, probably a 5G antenna and a battery so they can function in a power outage.
Big business and law enforcement hand in hand like always.
Also Meijer
And Kroger. Also, hello fellow midwesterner!
Yup all the Lowe’s and HDs near me have them. I’ve been debating hitting them with high powered lasers or paintball guns, but part of me is worried about being disappeared over it.
??? This doesn’t even make business sense. They’re arresting their biggest customers/the labor all their contractors use
So the use of ai is concerning, but the whole point of cameras in grocery stores is to hand to cops.
Bad headline is bad.
Have you seen the other articles about the mentioned company? It’s not just handing over the relevant footage when a crime occurs so that crime can be prosecuted, it’s a nationwide surveillance network that gives them access to the location history of millions of people regardless of whether they’ve done anything wrong.
You’ll see where I still said it’s concerning.
