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So flock safety, flock surveillance, I prefer to call them, they're one of a number of vendors

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making what they like to call ALPRs or automated license plate readers, which really is a bit

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of a misnomer.

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They do a whole lot more than just read license plates.

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In the case of flock, they're using AI in a centralized backend to cloud-based backend

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to tag things like make model color, roof racks, bumper stickers, window tints, bike

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racks, all that kind of stuff.

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And they build, they recently renamed it from a vehicle fingerprint to a vehicle

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signature, which I think just sounds a little better PR wise.

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I think somebody told them to do that.

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But they're building this database and every time they see a vehicle, regardless

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of whether you're on any kind of a watch list or the car is stolen or anything

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like that, they're putting you in a database that then becomes searchable

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for by default 30 days, but it can be longer without a warrant.

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So we've seen a lot of abuse already.