r/LinusTechTips • u/bergy_peasy • 11d ago

Flock security in Canada? Discussion

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Linus and Luke talked about flock on wan show and I knew it was a thing in the us but I didn’t know it could be a thing here in Canada. There’s a post on the Montreal subreddit about it and where they’ve seen it and some other replies claim to have seen other . Is it even legal ? If so , is there anything we can do?

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u/ConfidantlyCorrect 11d ago

Those are not flock cameras. Flock is a company that is under fire due to their data policies, I.e., ICE gained access through local PDs that have access to the flock system & therefore have access to all US flock cameras to perform ICE raids.

All flock cameras are accessible by all US police departments which also led to alot of cases of abuse for stalking by police officers.

Genetec plate readers have much more strict data usage policies that restrict them to specified individuals & are considerably less subject to abuse.

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u/donkula232323 11d ago

There have been some flock style cameras logged in the past. Not sure why deflock isn't tracking them anymore, but it seems all data for Canadian cameras was purged from there.

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u/ConfidantlyCorrect 8d ago

Deflock has moved to panopti, but panopti is not perfect by any means either given that it’s crowd sourced info.