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Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

Not flock related, but still camera related. The FBI released videos from Nancy Guthrie's attacker were taken from a camera which was "supposed" to be disabled as she wasn't paying for a service.

Basically, the FBI just proved that Google, Amazon, etc., are recording you when these companies explicitly stated they weren't.
If it has a camera then it's recording you. I have a few Ring cameras that I don't pay for the service but assume that Ring is doing it anyway. They're left over from years ago and just as a way to monitor locations from my phone. I've since replaced them with ieGeek and 128GB SD cards. That's why Kinect never took off because everyone assumed it was sending footage to Microsoft. It's also why Mark Zucherberg puts tape on his laptops webcam.

View: https://youtu.be/nM9RePARj5Q?si=lsGo9bcRyF9wnm-8
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AI facial recognition put this grandma in jail for 108 days thinking this woman robbed a bank. Also, she lived in Tennessee a 1,000 miles away from the robbery in North Dakota. By the time this woman was released which was Christmas Eve, she had no money, no car, no coat, no way home, and she lost her house and her dog. All because the Police didn't do an actual investigation and listened to AI blindly. kirbyrj you reading this? You see why AI powered cameras are a bad idea yet? Probably not.
https://smry.ai/www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud

View: https://youtu.be/cbPmUQVbI0I?si=nut4e2M-lBWY5cHB
 
Honestly shocked AI cameras aren't using gait analysis so they can make a database of people's walking styles to "identify" people, then the fireworks will happen.

That said, any lawyer worth a cent will give granny their services for free as she's about to win a massive lawsuit against them
 
You think that isn't taking place? It is by many companies already, even up to 10 years ago it was already available for purchase. Our Milestone servers at work even have the plugin for it. Just check the box and make sure you have your Nvidia license active.
 
AI facial recognition put this grandma in jail for 108 days thinking this woman robbed a bank. Also, she lived in Tennessee a 1,000 miles away from the robbery in North Dakota. By the time this woman was released which was Christmas Eve, she had no money, no car, no coat, no way home, and she lost her house and her dog. All because the Police didn't do an actual investigation and listened to AI blindly. kirbyrj you reading this? You see why AI powered cameras are a bad idea yet? Probably not.
https://smry.ai/www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud

View: https://youtu.be/cbPmUQVbI0I?si=nut4e2M-lBWY5cHB


I listen but for every one instance of supposed abuse there are a thousands cases that are solved by this technology. As I said before, it's all fine and good to be anti-technology with the police until your kid gets run over.
 
I remember that argument in a philosophy class I was forced to take in college. They never took into account taking away people's lives or freedom. It was deemed acceptable because you were supposedly saving people at the same time. You have to kill some good guys to save good guys and that's great!

Classic collectivist/communist propaganda.
 
I don't think Kirbyj ever said that law enforcement should be given a free pass when they mess up and blindly follow the AI. I mean I hate to tell you I have cameras on my house along with tons of other people, so if you expect privacy in the public, you probably going to be far more exposed than you think. I already turned my footage over once due to mail theft to law enforcement. Only plus if they have to ask me for my footage unlike many of these internet connected service cameras, only my camera server has the footage. Most large cities have cameras all over the place.
 
I remember that argument in a philosophy class I was forced to take in college. They never took into account taking away people's lives or freedom. It was deemed acceptable because you were supposedly saving people at the same time. You have to kill some good guys to save good guys and that's great!

Classic collectivist/communist propaganda.

I never said that we should "kill" anyone. You're grossly overstating the argument and appealing to most people's distaste for communism.

The tradeoff of liberty for security happens every single day. This is the just the way the world works. You literally trade your freedoms for societal good/security every time you get in your car and drive anywhere. You (theoretically) obey the established rules of the road and don't drive in the left hand lane at 100 MPH. You pay your taxes or else the government takes away your property whether or not you reap the benefit of them (e.g. school tax for childless couples). I can't fire off a machine gun out my back porch (usually). Every additional law that gets passed is the erosion of more "liberty."

I'm not saying the trade-off is worth it in some cases. I just have seen some benefit to how cameras like this have been able to solve crimes in tough cases that would previously have gone unsolved. People say "think of the children" like I'm talking about censorship on TV or something. All I'm saying is that it's amazing how people change their tunes when their kids are the victims and they want justice.

Also, I've never said that the abuse of technology like this shouldn't go unpunished. Police are just like any other profession, except there are around 1 million of them. So just like any other profession, you have 10% of overachievers, 80% good guys who generally do a good job, and 10% scumbags.
 
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I listen but for every one instance of supposed abuse there are a thousands cases that are solved by this technology. As I said before, it's all fine and good to be anti-technology with the police until your kid gets run over.
You see how this persons life was ruined right? This is what I said happens when someone becomes the focus of a Police investigation. I really don't see how the good outweigh the bad here?
I don't think Kirbyj ever said that law enforcement should be given a free pass when they mess up and blindly follow the AI. I mean I hate to tell you I have cameras on my house along with tons of other people, so if you expect privacy in the public, you probably going to be far more exposed than you think. I already turned my footage over once due to mail theft to law enforcement. Only plus if they have to ask me for my footage unlike many of these internet connected service cameras, only my camera server has the footage. Most large cities have cameras all over the place.
The problem with these cameras is that in order for them to work the Police must assume the AI is correct, otherwise they're useless. As we've seen, the AI makes mistakes. The situations where someone was wrongly arrested is the result of nobody doing an actual investigation.
That said, any lawyer worth a cent will give granny their services for free as she's about to win a massive lawsuit against them
Hopefully these lawsuits will change the minds of governments to stop wasting their time and breaking people rights to save some money and time with AI cameras.
 
I listen but for every one instance of supposed abuse there are a thousands cases that are solved by this technology. As I said before, it's all fine and good to be anti-technology with the police until your kid gets run over.

Even one is too many.

And this is also the reason why I vehemently oppose the death penalty in nearly all instances.
 
I remember that argument in a philosophy class I was forced to take in college. They never took into account taking away people's lives or freedom. It was deemed acceptable because you were supposedly saving people at the same time. You have to kill some good guys to save good guys and that's great!

Classic collectivist/communist propaganda.
If we ban cars we could save 30,000 or so lives a year in the US alone!
 
I remember that argument in a philosophy class I was forced to take in college. They never took into account taking away people's lives or freedom. It was deemed acceptable because you were supposedly saving people at the same time. You have to kill some good guys to save good guys and that's great!
Except when it's OK to kill some to save some, you end up doing it more often and never look for a proper solution. The next thing you know you're killing because it keeps the rain falling. How did Benjamin Franklin put it? "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
Classic collectivist/communist propaganda.
That's not how either of them work.
And this is also the reason why I vehemently oppose the death penalty in nearly all instances.
The death penalty is a terrible idea because it becomes a tool that can often be abused. There are already situations where innocent people were killed due to the death penalty, but was found innocent after their death.
If we ban cars we could save 30,000 or so lives a year in the US alone!
But what about the organ donors? Think of the organs!
 
Hopefully these lawsuits will change the minds of governments to stop wasting their time and breaking people rights to save some money and time with AI cameras.
Not happening. Why do you think they building out all these data centers every where now?
 
The death penalty is a terrible idea because it becomes a tool that can often be abused. There are already situations where innocent people were killed due to the death penalty, but was found innocent after their death.
Exactly.
 
I listen but for every one instance of supposed abuse there are a thousands cases that are solved by this technology. As I said before, it's all fine and good to be anti-technology with the police until your kid gets run over.
Horseshit.
 
I listen but for every one instance of supposed abuse there are a thousands cases that are solved by this technology. As I said before, it's all fine and good to be anti-technology with the police until your kid gets run over.

If you have to point to someone's kid getting run over as a point in your debate you've effectively lost the argument. Laws and law enforcement should make logical sense, not require someone to be thinking illogically for them to be valuable. If someone needs their kid dead or injured to believe that the law is just then you've got yourself a useless law. It if can't hold itself up on its merits, sans emotion, then it is a failure. Emotion is also why people abuse the system. Nobody abuses the system by making a well reasoned argument. They do it because it is faster, or cheaper, to just abuse the system and not do the work.
 
If you have to point to someone's kid getting run over as a point in your debate you've effectively lost the argument. Laws and law enforcement should make logical sense, not require someone to be thinking illogically for them to be valuable. If someone needs their kid dead or injured to believe that the law is just then you've got yourself a useless law. It if can't hold itself up on its merits, sans emotion, then it is a failure. Emotion is also why people abuse the system. Nobody abuses the system by making a well reasoned argument. They do it because it is faster, or cheaper, to just abuse the system and not do the work.

More people follow the rules if they know they might be watched. Deterrent is often more valuable then laws themselves.
 
Not happening. Why do you think they building out all these data centers every where now?
I know, which is why I say those data centers should be audited to see what info they're keeping in there. You don't have those many data centers because you need to train AI. They're processing data with AI, and more than likely video footage acquired through illegal methods.
If you have to point to someone's kid getting run over as a point in your debate you've effectively lost the argument. Laws and law enforcement should make logical sense, not require someone to be thinking illogically for them to be valuable. If someone needs their kid dead or injured to believe that the law is just then you've got yourself a useless law. It if can't hold itself up on its merits, sans emotion, then it is a failure. Emotion is also why people abuse the system. Nobody abuses the system by making a well reasoned argument. They do it because it is faster, or cheaper, to just abuse the system and not do the work.
How's it go? The road to hell is paved with good intentions?
More people follow the rules if they know they might be watched. Deterrent is often more valuable then laws themselves.
That never works. I know it never works because this was the tactic of the RIAA and MPAA. They put people in jail and ruined their lives to scare people away from piracy. All it did was push people to use better tools for piracy. Same goes for the IRS and Joe Louis who they went after to make an example out of him to not cheat in your taxes. Yet, people tax evade all the time. The IRS estimates that about 11% increase in tax fraud. What usually happens is when people get caught then they find better ways to not get caught.
 
How did Benjamin Franklin put it? "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
Oh if only half the people who use this quote actually knew what it was in reference to... then about half the people would know where it comes from
 
If you have to point to someone's kid getting run over as a point in your debate you've effectively lost the argument. Laws and law enforcement should make logical sense, not require someone to be thinking illogically for them to be valuable. If someone needs their kid dead or injured to believe that the law is just then you've got yourself a useless law. It if can't hold itself up on its merits, sans emotion, then it is a failure. Emotion is also why people abuse the system. Nobody abuses the system by making a well reasoned argument. They do it because it is faster, or cheaper, to just abuse the system and not do the work.

All I'm doing is pointing to the benefit. At what point does the ratio of crimes solved to abuses swing to the crimes solved favor? If you say "any" abuse is too many, you're just not being realistic. Nor do you apply that standard to other government functions (at least DukenukemX is honest enough to say he doesn't like police which clearly colors his view of the topic at hand). I would say that the ratio is in the thousands to 1 at this rate. It's not even just solving crime. I read an article today about a flock camera being used to find a dementia patient who got in their car and went driving within the first hour of them being missing. And once again, it's just an academic exercise to you until you benefit (or suffer from abuse). No one here has suffered from abuse.
 
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That isn't the issue. The issue is the computer is trusted, since the human investigations take far too long with the amount of data collected. It is like looking at a SIEM and taking actions. Sure the pattern may match, but if you don't actually find out what's going on, you make a lot of mistakes impacting the rest of the system. But in the end, nobody has time to sift though 4.5 million packets and make correlations themselves. That's what you get with Flock, other ALPR systems, casino video systems, OBD2 data loggers, etc. The actions are taken and trusted because it is more conventient and you don't have the staff to look into it. While it isn't impacting people at a large scale now, it will in the future, and that's what we're pointing to. If you don't see this, you need to do some more research into how these systems work and the people who run them, and ultimately the people who take action based on the data they're given. You better hope the judge and jury doesn't side with the data, and really hope you don't just get a bench trial where the jury just decides how guilty you are. (probably soon to be replaced with computers as well)
 
All I'm doing is pointing to the benefit. At what point does the ratio of crimes solved to abuses swing to the crimes solved favor? If you say "any" abuse is too many, you're just not being realistic. Nor do you apply that standard to other government functions (at least DukenukemX is honest enough to say he doesn't like police which clearly colors his view of the topic at hand). I would say that the ratio is in the thousands to 1 at this rate. It's not even just solving crime. I read an article today about a flock camera being used to find a dementia patient who got in their car and went driving within the first hour of them being missing. And once again, it's just an academic exercise to you until you benefit (or suffer from abuse). No one here has suffered from abuse.

Yeah, no. Abuse happens. I'll grant you that. But when you set the system up such that it encourages abuse (setting quotas) then the extra tools just make it easier and easier to abuse the system. Speed traps, for instance, where they set up cops right next to abrupt changes in the speed limit only exist because they've set the system up to encourage abuse as the cop gets a pat on the back for the tickets because the department gets bonus money for all the tickets. Same reason they abuse the crap out of seizing property and make it near impossible to get it back. When you set up a system that encourages abuse then the abuse isn't the problem, it is the system. Allowing the cops to use AI unfettered is going to lead to more and more of the abuse situations because they'll be encouraged/expected to close cases faster with all the new tools. That will lead to cutting more corners than they already do which will lead to more people who's lives are ruined as a result.

No different than companies trying to ram AI down people's throats and expecting faster workflow. It leads to fake stuff flowing through because people don't have the time, or motivation, to deal with the fake information.

If they wanted this tool to discourage abuse they would make the cop responsible for any AI hallucination. That would force them to check the AI results instead of just trusting it. If you could sue the cop or he got fired for wrongfully imprisoning someone then they'd be damned careful. But, we know that won't happen so you have what you have ... abuse. AI isn't the only source of abuse, it is just the latest tool that allows lazy cops to do lazy police work and since they're protected up the ass by politicians and their union they'll rarely pay the price for lazy work.

I admire good cops because they put their life on the line. Good cops don't let AI solve the case for them. They'd be checking everything.

So, yeah, I can see benefits but what I don't see are safeguards that try to prevent the abuse. Just yet another tool for abuse with no ramifications for the people doing the abusing.
 
Yeah, no. Abuse happens. I'll grant you that. But when you set the system up such that it encourages abuse (setting quotas) then the extra tools just make it easier and easier to abuse the system. Speed traps, for instance, where they set up cops right next to abrupt changes in the speed limit only exist because they've set the system up to encourage abuse as the cop gets a pat on the back for the tickets because the department gets bonus money for all the tickets. Same reason they abuse the crap out of seizing property and make it near impossible to get it back. When you set up a system that encourages abuse then the abuse isn't the problem, it is the system. Allowing the cops to use AI unfettered is going to lead to more and more of the abuse situations because they'll be encouraged/expected to close cases faster with all the new tools. That will lead to cutting more corners than they already do which will lead to more people who's lives are ruined as a result.

No different than companies trying to ram AI down people's throats and expecting faster workflow. It leads to fake stuff flowing through because people don't have the time, or motivation, to deal with the fake information.

If they wanted this tool to discourage abuse they would make the cop responsible for any AI hallucination. That would force them to check the AI results instead of just trusting it. If you could sue the cop or he got fired for wrongfully imprisoning someone then they'd be damned careful. But, we know that won't happen so you have what you have ... abuse. AI isn't the only source of abuse, it is just the latest tool that allows lazy cops to do lazy police work and since they're protected up the ass by politicians and their union they'll rarely pay the price for lazy work.

I admire good cops because they put their life on the line. Good cops don't let AI solve the case for them. They'd be checking everything.

So, yeah, I can see benefits but what I don't see are safeguards that try to prevent the abuse. Just yet another tool for abuse with no ramifications for the people doing the abusing.

You took a simple good vs. abuse and brought in some nonsense quota argument. Then say that because of quotas AI is abused. The departments around me don't have "quotas." So then you don't have an argument :ROFLMAO: ?

You can sue police departments for any number of things generally falling under a federal civil rights violation. So I'm not sure why you are bringing that up either. If a bad cop has resulted in multiple lawsuits against the department, the department is probably going to fire the cop. It's not rocket science. A family member of mine successfully sued a police department for a wrongful arrest for DUI. So right out of the gate, I already know more than you about this because I lived it and was the one who suggested suing the police department because of the actions of a bad cop.

Your "good cops don't let AI solve the case for them" is misguided. A good cop uses all of the investigative tools at their disposal including AI. There's a whole TV show about how the chances of crimes being solved drops in half after 48 hours. So the point is to develop leads as quickly as possible including using Flock cameras, Ring cameras, etc. You call that lazy...I call it a tool. And a good department has regulations about the use of AI (the ones that I interact with all have AI policies). So you created an imaginary police department that doesn't investigate and uses AI to solve crimes without checking facts and then proceed to call them lazy and protected and attack them. Which department are you talking about exactly? Ever heard of a straw man?
 
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You can sue police departments for any number of things generally falling under a federal civil rights violation. So I'm not sure why you are bringing that up either. If a bad cop has resulted in multiple lawsuits against the department, the department is probably going to fire the cop. It's not rocket science. A family member of mine successfully sued a police department for a wrongful arrest for DUI. So right out of the gate, I already know more than you about this because I lived it and was the one who suggested suing the police department because of the actions of a bad cop.
The problem yet again is that arresting someone does usually ruin their lives. Assuming that once someone gets out of jail and have been acquitted of crimes they were accused of, then they can begin the arduous task of not only trying to put their life back together, but finding a lawyer and suing a Police department. We are also making the assumption that the wrongful arrest was even caught. People could spend their entire lives in jail and never be proven innocent.
You call that lazy...I call it a tool.
The problem with this tool is that it's intentionally a shortcut, and anyone who makes good use of this AI tool will never double check to see if it was correct. This is the problem we're seeing with AI applied to everywhere because it keeps making mistakes and people keep not checking to see if AI did the work correctly. If you have to check to see if AI was correct, then why even have AI at all? This is why more often than not, the AI mistakes will get through because nobody wants to spend time to double check it's work.
And a good department has regulations about the use of AI (the ones that I interact with all have AI policies).
Is there an app that alerts me to which towns have the bad departments that abuse AI? If you're saying "good departments", then that suggests there are bad departments.
So you created an imaginary police department that doesn't investigate and uses AI to solve crimes without checking facts and then proceed to call them lazy and protected and attack them. Which department are you talking about exactly? Ever heard of a straw man?
I literally linked you a few articles on these very events. But again, your argument is that the sacrifice we make using AI with Flock is a risk worth taking.
 
I think you are overstating the sacrifice as you say. For every one of your cases of abuse there are thousands with good outcomes. Whether that be tracking down a vehicle used in a child abduction or a murder to as simple as a hit and run crash or the timely finding of a dementia patient.

I agree that somebody who gets arrested thousands of miles away for a burglary or whatever is a problem that should have never occurred. But just because some clown misuses the tool doesn't mean the tool is bad. Just like many tools it is ammoral. At the very least it gives a starting point for an investigation.
 
I think you are overstating the sacrifice as you say. For every one of your cases of abuse there are thousands with good outcomes. Whether that be tracking down a vehicle used in a child abduction or a murder to as simple as a hit and run crash or the timely finding of a dementia patient.

I agree that somebody who gets arrested thousands of miles away for a burglary or whatever is a problem that should have never occurred. But just because some clown misuses the tool doesn't mean the tool is bad. Just like many tools it is ammoral. At the very least it gives a starting point for an investigation.
So where are the statistics that there are thousands of good outcomes versus one bit of abuse? And what number makes you happy? Is it 1:1? 1:100? 1:1000? What's the math that makes it ok.
 
I think you are overstating the sacrifice as you say. For every one of your cases of abuse there are thousands with good outcomes. Whether that be tracking down a vehicle used in a child abduction or a murder to as simple as a hit and run crash or the timely finding of a dementia patient.
How many of them needed AI Flock cameras? In a world of dash cams and cell phones, how many of those thousands needed Flock AI cameras?
I agree that somebody who gets arrested thousands of miles away for a burglary or whatever is a problem that should have never occurred. But just because some clown misuses the tool doesn't mean the tool is bad. Just like many tools it is ammoral. At the very least it gives a starting point for an investigation.
One or two clowns is not the problem. It's when the inevitable circus that appears.

View: https://youtu.be/OsT7-h0qwFc?si=EJaCxb23dFnz_YDZ
 
Given the nature of humans I 100% believe there is more abuse by authorities using these systems then "good" outcomes.

That's just ignorant and can be disproven by using google for 30 seconds.

How many of them needed AI Flock cameras? In a world of dash cams and cell phones, how many of those thousands needed Flock AI cameras?

One or two clowns is not the problem. It's when the inevitable circus that appears.

View: https://youtu.be/OsT7-h0qwFc?si=EJaCxb23dFnz_YDZ


That's no better. I'm clearly talking about abuse with flock cameras and AI and you bring up some random sex scandal having to do with neither. Not unexpected given that you would take any opportunity to portray police in a negative light given your bias against them.
 
Yeah the "I not worried I am not doing anything wrong" crowd. after seeing innocent people getting run through the mill, hopefully it wakes people up.
 
That's just ignorant and can be disproven by using google for 30 seconds.



That's no better. I'm clearly talking about abuse with flock cameras and AI and you bring up some random sex scandal having to do with neither. Not unexpected given that you would take any opportunity to portray police in a negative light given your bias against them.
The scandals shows those who we are supposed to trust with our own safety and protection, are corrupt and thus, would use these new AI systems and abuse them also for personal gain...

Ontario Canada had a scandal as well with officers that went on for years..

How often do you hear of offices access personal data on someone they had no right to be doing?
 
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Those of you thinking this is a good tool that isn't abused probably think that PRISM was the best thing ever and the PATRIOT Act doesn't infringe on our constitutionally protected rights.


There is a reason that these systems are leased and not a single one is owned by the government. For the same reason the CIA has contractors working. It creates a "legal" air gap, and then there is also no whistleblower protection.
 
Here's another example where the cops depend on Flock and screw up, except in this case it's being repeated. AI flagged him for a warrant for arrest, but he doesn't have a warrant so he keeps getting pulled over. He can't seem to get off the list. As a reminder, it's illegal for police to pull you over without legal justification because it breaks your Fourth Amendment rights. It seems having rights in 2026 USA doesn't seem to matter anymore.
 
Here's another example where the cops depend on Flock and screw up, except in this case it's being repeated. AI flagged him for a warrant for arrest, but he doesn't have a warrant so he keeps getting pulled over. He can't seem to get off the list. As a reminder, it's illegal for police to pull you over without legal justification because it breaks your Fourth Amendment rights. It seems having rights in 2026 USA doesn't seem to matter anymore.
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The cop at the end say no one should be pulled over without legitimate RAS but yet he still does it.
 
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