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Posted on 10/01/2026 5:17:50 PM PDT by george76
Wisconsin voters, like many across the country, are increasing against the use of Flock cameras for public safety.
A new poll found that 63% of registered voters believe Flock cameras are an unacceptable violation of privacy rights while 37% believe that they are an important tool for police investigations.
Those polled were told that Flock Safety has 120,000 cameras that allow the company and law enforcement to track the movement of vehicles and then were asked about their beliefs about those cameras in the most recent Marquette Poll.
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Milwaukee Police have misused Flock and
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automated license plate readers cannot simply be treated as another piece of police equipment,” the letter reads. “ALPRs allow the government to engage in the dragnet, warrantless collection of likely millions of images of vehicles and plates of people driving to work, church, union meetings, medical appointments, and protests in Milwaukee that are stored by a multibillion dollar company for AI-powered searches and predictive analytics.
“ALPRs enable users to reconstruct individuals’ patterns of movement and associations. When access is abused–or used as intended–the consequences can extend far beyond the person whose information was searched.”
Several other Wisconsin communities have ended contracts with Flock over privacy concerns.
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State Rep. Calvin Callahan, R-Tomahawk, said he intends to call a hearing on surveillance cameras and their use in the state once a new legislative session begins in January in front of the Assembly Committee on Consumer Protection that he chairs.
Callahan previously was a sponsor of a Flock camera grant bill in the state Legislature.
“What was sold to us as a targeted public safety tool has rapidly evolved into something far more invasive and sometimes out of control, with reports of misuse, mistaken stops, and access to data that should concern every Wisconsinite,
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I don’t have any problem with Flock cameras IF each was labeled with “Big Brother is Watching - INGSOC.”
You’ll notice this was Wisconsin, which was rated at an extremely high crime rate—in Milwaukee.
If you want to stop crime, allow everyone to carry without hassle and stop prosecuting people for defending themselves.
If you want to record a crime in the hopes someone will be caught quickly and released quickly to commit more crimes, ban guns and impose mass surveillance.
No way to tell if he was right but a tech guy in an interview was asked about the way some say AI could look for a cure for cancer and do other things.
He said: AI is not even starting to do anything like that. It is in the first phase which is surveillance and gathering all data to coordinate it. Cameras, phones, what is watched on TV, all searches on the internet, buying preferences and so on. Roughly 650 data centers have been built now but AI will need about 4 times that many to begin to do any advanced medical research.
As I say, who knows if he is right.
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