@moreperfectunion: Dozens of cities are cancelling Flock contracts — but too many are replacing them with surveillance agreements that could be ever worse. Axon and Motorola are both in the Automatic License Plate Reader business, making cameras that track vehicles. Axon already has deals with 85% of police departments because of its body cam business, but now it's expanding further into mass surveillance and license plate readers. They're also getting into facial recognition, AI, and a massive integrated database with very little oversight. Producer/Host: @trevorp_hayes Editor: Gina Barton Supervising Producer: Court Fuller
Stop calling these things “license plate readers” they are public surveillance cameras. They do much more than read plates.
2026-09-03 00:27:49
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Nunya :
Axon is the same fucking thing, any town that did this needs to be investigated for treason against its population
2026-09-03 00:45:00
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j.atha_irvin :
Is that why Governor Desantis made a big deal about removing flock cameras? Because he’s going to install axon— who trump invested in back in January.
2026-09-03 01:57:08
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Ethiopia&theWorldProtectGIRLS! :
We need to be clear that we DON'T WANT ANY AI SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS IN OUR TOWNS!!!!
2026-09-03 00:57:59
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Amy Martin :
We aren’t fucking mad enough
2026-09-03 00:58:16
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السهم :
Motorola phones which is owned by Lenovo not same as Motorola solutions. Two different companies
2026-09-03 09:37:14
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tughillrider :
If police officers get access to flock cams so should the public who pay for their salaries and the technology that allows them to access the cameras. Just a thought
2026-09-03 09:37:41
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m :
This actually reinforces a theory I have that seems consistent with a lot of companies in Peter Thiels founders fund: flock's exit strategy is to sell to Axon or Moto, but they're too big/overvalued. so they're doing bad PR and high pricing on purpose because they want to extract money quickly while they deflate
2026-09-03 02:16:03
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Yumimiko Kazato :
While I still stand firm that these cameras need to be taken down permanently, I think it is also important to implement more measures to protect ourselves. If they are trying to make databases of each individual’s habits and schedules, it is important for us to become more unpredictable. Take routes you don’t normally take. Don’t visit the same places day after day. Make more stops at places than you usually do. If we don’t have a routine for them to take, the data they keep becomes more unreliable. They can’t claim suspicious and abnormal behavior if there is no set normal for them to compare to
2026-09-03 02:13:33
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Miggy :
All these spy cameras need to be all taken down
2026-09-03 09:17:01
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genetically.scottish :
Yea when I heard Dallas was “turning off” flock cameras, my immediate thought was “no they’re not! They absolutely aren’t TURNING them OFF”…
2026-09-02 23:59:05
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lordpyralis3 :
when China does mass surveillance:
America is the land of the free! We would never follow Chinese propaganda!
when America want to track license plates and faces:
2026-09-03 01:47:50
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shesabrik_house23 :
Yall letting the same evil people stay at the top and expect something to change?
2026-09-02 23:54:28
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mushroomphone :
I feel like all this public surveillance is why they really need that many data centers and ofc to lower quality of living for the working class so that people hate being home.
2026-09-03 07:07:01
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Laura Miller8275 :
because of course they are
2026-09-02 23:50:00
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loose.boots :
There is a literal tt video from the Mayor of Asheville NC telling their voters how they’ve listened to their demands and are canceling Flock AND THEN immediately signed a million dollar contract with Axon.
2026-09-03 01:15:28
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Scott :
We don’t want any ai cameras, I don’t mind cctv cameras.
2026-09-03 00:59:54
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randomNPC :
Axon is tasers, body cams, police dash cams, records management systems and Motorola also has its own police dispatch program.
2026-09-03 02:53:05
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Paige :
who is going to make a transparent sticker we can put on our license plates to make them unreadable to computers (but visible to the naked eye)?
2026-09-03 07:32:53
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IAmAPyromaniac :
I just want to feel safe. Isn't that what politicians are paid to do? I'm not feeling it anymore
2026-09-03 07:51:49
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Cam (they/them) :
i don't even want to leave the house anymore
2026-09-03 02:04:16
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Recker the 🇵🇷 DM :
cool more thing to see brought down by the law of reciprocating that goes into affect on Halloween
2026-09-03 02:17:09
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IronysGrace🍉🕊️🪶 :
Axon also owns a service called “retail crime hub” that let’s retailers feed information about anyone who enters their stores under a thin veneer of “loss prevention” into an ai and then that ai builds profile to give to cops
2026-09-03 01:49:01
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TresselSet :
We have to vote them out!!
2026-09-03 00:51:40
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