What the Flock is Going On - DTNS 3979

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Flock cameras are used for neighborhood surveillance and can detect people, animals, and bicycles, but are best at detecting cars, specifically their license plates. Motherboard obtained hundreds of emails from about 20 police departments in the US detailing the use of a program called TALON to look up information collected from Flock cameras. More than 500 police departments in more than 1,000 US cities have access. Flock claims it helps police solve 4 to 5 crimes per hour. Is this a dangerous trend or one we should welcome?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe

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0:00.0	A tech demo shows off the usual tech things.
0:04.0	Then I'm going to jump to a link.
0:05.0	Using the usual tech devices.
0:07.0	We have a plane device called our mouse.
0:09.0	Doing the usual tech productivity tasks.
0:11.0	Now we're connected audio.
0:13.0	You can see my work. You can point at it.
0:15.0	And I can see your face and we can talk.
0:17.0	Except it's 1968, and it's going to set the computing agenda
0:20.0	for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored.
0:24.0	The mother of all demos on no a little more.
0:27.0	Get it wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	Picture this.
0:34.0	Static cars.
0:36.0	Idling engines.
0:38.0	Angry horns.
0:40.0	Now.
0:42.0	Picture you.
0:44.0	Zooming past it all.
0:46.0	Light and breezy.
0:48.0	Ah.
0:49.0	The sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
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