Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras (404media.co)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/03/0545254/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras
- Source link: https://www.404media.co/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras/
> "We will not add facial recognition to our devices," Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a [2]recent video . But other, third-party companies are telling cops that they are willing to add facial recognition to data gathered by Flock cameras in order to "close that gap." A company called VIDIZMO is advertising the capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds. VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and database company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within the last six months. In a May email to Johnson City, Tennessee, deputy police chief Michael Adams, a salesperson from VIDIZMO wrote that the company's product could do facial recognition on both Flock and Axon [body-worn camera] data in "one searchable platform...."
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> VIDIZMO's CEO, Nadeem Khan, told 404 Media on a video call that the company has not yet started running facial recognition tech on footage from Flock cameras, and that it has not actually built the specific tool that would export data from Flock's system to its own platform (though the company advertises this capability online, and the company already sells other facial recognition products). But Khan said VIDIZMO "would love to do the integration," and that he believes facial recognition "is the way the world is going, the way the world will have to be," and that he thinks Flock should offer the capability itself in a way that "balances privacy, security, and the freedom that we enjoy in this country."
The article notes that VIDIZMO says on its website, "You can identify individuals from seven races: White, Black, Indian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latino Hispanic." VIDIZMO adds that stores or cities can also then do "demographic analysis" for marketing purposes by determining the races or ages of people showing up....
[1] https://www.404media.co/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras/
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glangley_because-of-flock-more-communities-are-safer-ugcPost-7493652492543770624-WR1X/?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAABD9sBoBAW_yiGeDUbc_zEiFlkWcO62pDaY
Several decades old, huh (Score:2)
> VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and database company
You wouldn't be able to tell that by looking at [1]their website [vidizmo.ai].
[1] https://vidizmo.ai/company/about
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Even stranger: [1]https://getlatka.com/companies... [getlatka.com]
Looks like they started in 2009 and made no money until 2025. Sitting dormant for 16 years?
[1] https://getlatka.com/companies/vidizmo.ai
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My guess is Mossad is involved somehow.
Double speak (Score:4, Insightful)
There is no way to balance mass surveillance with "privacy, security, and the freedom that we enjoy in this country"
Shocking (Score:2)
I'm guessing the next step is using/selling these videos feeds to be included as training data for some AI system.
Ahahaha, just kidding! I'm sure that's already happening.
balances privacy, security, and freedom? (Score:2)
> But Khan said VIDIZMO "would love to do the integration," and that he believes facial recognition "is the way the world is going, the way the world will have to be," and that he thinks Flock should offer the capability itself in a way that "balances privacy, security, and the freedom that we enjoy in this country."
the proper verb is eliminates
Closing the gap? (Score:2)
> But other, third-party companies are telling cops that they are willing to add facial recognition to data gathered by Flock cameras in order to "close that gap."
The only gaps I want to see closed are the ones between the upper and lower blades of the guillotines around the necks of all these fuckers. Every single one of them is a traitor to humanity.
Their willingness to take advantage of a surveillance technology which is still being widely and popularly condemned says something. I'm just not sure what that "something" is.
I want to ad something too (Score:2)
Like paintball splatter to the lenses
No. (Score:2)
No. Nadeem Khan might as well be a goddamned terrorist.
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We have seen recent stories about facial recognition flagging innocent people as having committed crimes in states they never even visited, resulting in arrest and detention for months before sorting it out.
Those kinks are too much to bear. The tech is not ready. Using it now is not acceptable.