For the past couple months, YouTube technologist Benn Jordan has been investigating Flock Safety surveillance cameras. With the help of 404 Media, they found that many of these cameras were not only tracking, zooming and following every passerby, but the footage was freely accessible on the internet.Jordan joined Marketplace Tech host Meghan McCarty Carino to talk about how he found the footage and the dangers the surveillance system poses to privacy and other civil liberties. Remember, Big Brother is always watching.
Remember, Big Brother is always watching.
For the past couple months, YouTube technologist Benn Jordan has been investigating Flock Safety surveillance cameras. With the help of 404 Media, they found that many of these cameras were not only tracking, zooming and following every passerby, but the footage was freely accessible on the internet.
In response to this discovery, a spokesperson told 404 Media, “This was a limited misconfiguration on a very small number of devices, and it has since been remedied.”
Jordan joined Marketplace Tech host Meghan McCarty Carino to talk about how he found the footage and the dangers the surveillance system poses to privacy and other civil liberties.
“This Flock camera leak is like Netflix for stalkers” from Benn Jordan
“Flock exposed its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We tracked ourselves” from 404 Media
“Flock’s aggressive expansions go far beyond simple driver surveillance” from the American Civil Liberties Union
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