Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops (www.404media.co)
from Landless2029@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 02 Nov 19:43
https://lemmy.world/post/38233316

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/56810574

The article itself is from August, but after seeing Flock cameras at a local Lowe’s store that were missing from the DeFlock map, I thought it’d be worth bringing increased attention to such companies contributing to the propagation of Flock cameras. If there’s a Home Depot or Lowe’s near you that’s not on the DeFlock map already, it might just not have been added yet.

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AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today on 02 Nov 21:41 next collapse

My local Lowe’s and Home Depot have the only Flock cameras in my county (for now, anyway).

prex@aussie.zone on 02 Nov 23:42 next collapse

The Australian equivalent got into trouble for trying something similar (without the flock integration) recently.
Kmart too.

0x0@lemmy.zip on 03 Nov 01:10 next collapse

Someone tell Rossmann.

techpir8@lemmy.ml on 03 Nov 04:10 next collapse

They are called Flock because they are herding us up like sheep.

toynbee@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 08:27 collapse

The Home Depot nearest to where I used to live had cameras in the tools section … Which is fine, but whenever they noticed a person in view, they would turn on the attached screens and play a tone every ten seconds or so. I guess it was to remind you that you were being surveilled?

Anyway, I always found them intrusive, annoying and offensive. I’m not surprised they’ve become part of a larger problem.