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ACCIDENTALLY INTERESTING · August 1 · 3 hr 36 min

EP.003: What the FLOCK is this?

Wiirdo and MickeyBravo dig into Flock Safety's automated license plate reader network — 100,000+ cameras across 6,000+ municipalities, and the private-company loophole that lets it sidestep the Fourth Amendment protections a government-run version would trigger. We cover what the cameras actually pick up (and what they don't), the abortion-search case that guts the "nothing to hide" argument, Flock Nova's aggregated "dark data" search fields, and the drone fleet that can now be over your house in 83 seconds. From there the show goes where the week's headlines pointed: Fauci back in the news, and reports of a Chinese robot army — riffed on live, full notes to follow.

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Wiirdo and MickeyBravo dig into Flock Safety's automated license plate reader network — 100,000+ cameras across 6,000+ municipalities, and the private-company loophole that lets it sidestep the Fourth Amendment protections a government-run version would trigger. We cover what the cameras actually pick up (and what they don't), the abortion-search case that guts the "nothing to hide" argument, Flock Nova's aggregated "dark data" search fields, and the drone fleet that can now be over your house in 83 seconds. From there the show goes where the week's headlines pointed: Fauci back in the news, and reports of a Chinese robot army — riffed on live, full notes to follow.

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