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Flock Says Its Cameras Worked 'Correctly' When Police Tracked and Ambushed Me for No Reason (www.thedrive.com)
submitted 1 month ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A brief recap: a few weeks ago I’d taken the $155,000 Range Rover I was testing out to run some errands with my wife in Plymouth, Minnesota. I was backing out of a parking space in front of my local Kohl’s when four cop cars came screaming up and “initiated a box and pin on the vehicle,” as the police report says. Hands on their guns, the officers ordered us out of the vehicle, patted us down, and eventually told us the Range Rover’s license plate—New Jersey 34 10 DTM—was stolen, they suspected the vehicle itself was stolen too, and they’d used Flock cameras to track me down over the last two days.

The scenario involving my wife and I is just one of many like it. Thomas noted that the system is 99% accurate today, but it’s performing 20 billion reads a month. That 1% error rate, of which I was a part of in June, makes for two hundred million misreads a month.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're about the whole "fake choice" people get in society thing?

I understand that, but I think you went overboard a little 😅

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sort of, but this is slightly different. It's an active obfuscation of an externally imposed identity element. A justifiable one in this case, but an external imposition in the first place, and external identity elements should always be held at arm's length because they tend to get abused.

Incorporating it into your material identity dulls your awareness of the fact this representation of you, isn't "you", and how it's used isn't up to you. Creating an attachment to it has risks, risks you are inclined to ignore if mentally it's just another personalized bumper sticker in your perception.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Guess it's just human nature, decorating our prisons, like we dress up knowing our bodies are our prisons too.

I mean you can see the good part in it, IMO, which is human creativity.

Freedom is terrifying, so people prefer being left with few premade choices.I don't think that in itself is always bad, but we should always think of what those choices are, and why.

Like numberplates on cars seems justifiable just because otherwise there would be chaos. Where I grew up every human had a number (and still do), where I live now they don't because of ww2 (rounding up of people was so simple when everyone was in a list), so it's walking on a razor's edge at all time I guess.

So continue questioning, but don't let your life get consumed by it I guess.

Cheers from Europe!