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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition
Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
TL;DRFlock denies plans for facial recognition, but third parties want to add it to their cameras.
Why it matters: Enables mass surveillance identification without company accountability or public consent mechanisms.
404 Media reports: "We will not add facial recognition to our devices," Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a 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…
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