Flock, Axon, Israel, and American Freedom
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The episode discusses the implications of advanced surveillance technologies like Flock and Axon on privacy and civil liberties.
Flock cameras capture a complete vehicle fingerprint and use neural networks to identify and track people. Flock’s system can generate “heat maps” charting a vehicle’s movements for 30 days, which can be used to reconstruct a person’s movements, associations, and habits. Flock’s Nationwide Data Sharing allows police in one state to track vehicles in another without probable cause. Flock cameras have been under much public scrutiny lately, and many have been destroyed. But Flock isn’t the only private company helping to build a mass surveillance state. A Company called, Axon, launched a clip-on streetlight camera called the “Axon Lightpost” in 2025. The device is powered by the streetlight’s socket and is designed to be installed on existing streetlights “in under an hour.” Axon terminated its partnership with Flock Safety in January 2023, which was seen as a strategic move to compete with Flock, but Axon is also less noticeable than Flock and much more difficult to destroy. The Fourth Amendment requires a detailed warrant with probable cause. But these new surveillance programs are collecting data on everyone without any suspicion, and are in direct violation of the Fourth…
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