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Flock cameras are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car's location, date, and time. They also capture your car's make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, bumper stickers, and even the interior, turning these into searchable data points.
These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime, exploiting a legal gray area that circumvents the Fourth Amendment. These systems are marketed as indispensable tools to fight crime, but they ignore the powerful tools police already have to track criminals, such as cell phone location data, creating a loophole that doesn't require a warrant.
Flock cameras and similar "license plate readers" are a serious risk to your privacy and civil liberties. These systems continuously record your movements without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion. Your driving history is rarely confined to the town or city where the cameras are installed. It's typically shared with thousands of other agencies nationwide (secretly). Once the data is out of your community, you have no control over how it's used or what rules apply, leading to instances of misuse.
Flock is currently being used by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, or LVMPD.
A significant portion of Clark County’s surveillance expansion occurred through private donations from Ben and Felicia Horowitz, used to acquire technologies such as Flock Safety cameras and Skydio drones. At the same time, Mr. Horowitz is a co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that invests in both of these companies.
Follow the money. Even assuming good faith, this alignment of private financial interests with public law-enforcement adoption shifts incentives toward rapid deployment rather than careful justification. When technology arrives framed as a donation or upgrade, the threshold question- necessity, proportionality, and whether less intrusive alternatives exist- is often bypassed.
Systems capable of automated, large-scale tracking permanently alter the relationship between residents and their government. Once embedded, they are difficult to unwind and tend to expand beyond their original scope.
Even worse, there is absolutely zero law in place that protect Las Vegas / Clark County residents from AI surveillance.