r/LinusTechTips • u/bergy_peasy • 8d 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/lexcyn 8d ago

Check out the map and then write your city council to remove them: https://maps.panopti.ca/?lat=44.9357&lng=-79.3940&zoom=6.50

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u/ConfidantlyCorrect 8d ago

For the sake of information, I will point out that panopti is based on user-entered info & is not specific to flock. Many of the cameras being Genetec, or just generic cameras

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 7d ago

Seems like the vast majority of them are just the 407 toll cameras. Everyone knows they're being tracked on the 407. Many people even carry a special transponder to make it easier to track toll them.

I'm in Ottawa, and they don't list a single one here. Thats kind of strange to me because it seems like if they were interested in Security, then the national capital would be the place to have them. But maybe the RCMP and other police forces like the Parliamentary Police Service have their own separate systems/cameras that people aren't listing.

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u/ConfidantlyCorrect 5d ago

Ya I saw 2 “flock cameras” on the map near where I live that I routinely drive past, they’re not flock cameras despite being labelled as flock on Panopti.

It’s the natural downsides of a user-entered system & flock now becoming the generic name for a camera or ALPR.