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記事は米国各地でフロックカメラの破壊行為が続けられている一方、100以上のコミュニティが自動車登録 Plates 認識システム（ALPRs）を拒否していることを伝えています。具体的な事例として、テキサス州ダラスやユタ州、ミネソタ州ウィノナなどでのカメラの破壊、そしてウェストバージニア州で逮捕された20歳の男性によるフロックカメラへの複数の破損事件が紹介されています。これらの事例は、米国全体で広がっているフロックカメラに対する反感を示しています。
一方で、アリゾナ州の sherif は自動車登録 Plates 認識システムの使用を見送り、市民の日常生活に関する詳細なデータ収集につながる可能性があると指摘しました。さらに、一部の住民は AI 技術を利用して政府官僚や家族の動向を監視する計画を持ち出したとも報告されています。
記事はまた、フロックシステムの導入を推進する都市と禁止しようとする都市との間で行われている「静かな戦争」についても言及しています。これは政府の責任性に対する懸念が背景にあると考えられます。
Dozens of Flock cameras have been vandalized around Dallas Texas in the last six months, reports a local news station. In Utah, ABC News reports, a county sheriff's office even said Wednesday a Flock camera was even vandalized within days of its being installed. And in the Minnesota city of Winona, "Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated theft," according to local media:
All eight cameras were taken August 1, according to the Winona Police Department. A patrol officer first noticed the cameras had not sent any alerts in 24 hours. When officers checked the locations, they found the cameras had been cut from their poles and taken. The poles were left behind.
Two additional Flock cameras on the Mississippi River Bridge, owned by Buffalo County, were also stolen in the same manner...
The thefts are part of a broader national trend. Flock cameras have been vandalized and cut down in communities across the country.
When someone in Florida filmed a damaged Flock camera lying in the grass in Florida, their footage attracted 980,000 views on social media, according to a local news report, with the uploader saying "Most of the people that are commenting are against Flock cameras." But that report adds it's one of at least five cameras recently damaged just in Florida:
- In another incident, investigators "found the black camera and its pole lying on the ground."
- Two days later, sheriff's deputies found a camera destroyed "with pieces scattered on the ground. Deputies reported the damage appeared to have been caused by a blunt object."
- On July 31, "Police said two camera poles had been intentionally cut in half, causing an estimated $10,000 in damage to the system."
In West Virginia 20-year-old Wesley Jackson has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing Flock cameras, with another 20-year-old (a university student) now arrested for being his accomplice, according to a local news report. Ironically, Jackson's arrest was made possible partly by information from... automated license plate readers.
But the Washington Post notes there's now a flood of Facebook commenters jokingly offering to provide a fake alibi:
"Couldn't have been him — we were out counting blades of grass," said one of the 29,000 commenters on a post about the arrest from the local news station WDTV. Others attested that the man, Wesley Jackson, had been helping them "replace the roof on a homeless shelter," "playing halo 2," "changing the tires" on their car or giving their "doggie a treat" at the time the cameras were destroyed.
Meanwhile, the anti-surveillance group DeFlock reports 100 communities have now rejected automated license plate readers. Wednesday an Arizona county sheriff explained to his local Board of Supervisors why he will not renew his office's contract with Flock when it expires next month. Local Arizona media reports:
"We have a camera system that can do facial recognition technology and can start building a data set on what our citizens are doing on a day-to-day basis," Teeple told supervisors. "That, in my training and experience, is a huge Fourth Amendment violation."
Recently an Arizona man even told his city council he'd be launching AI-powered satellites to monitor "where government officials go, where they stop, who they meet with, and when they return home," reports 404 Media:
It would be no different than how the city monitors its citizens using Flock cameras, he said...
He said he'd already started compiling profiles on their vehicles, spouses vehicles, children's vehicles, and planned to combine that data with Bluetooth signals, advertising IDs, and commercial data sources, "so our authorized users can replay the movements of every government official and their immediate family," he said. Local businesses would be invited to join the network, to "protect" officials while they shop, eat at restaurants, and move around the city.
And CNET reports "a quiet battle is happening across the US" between "towns working to adopt Flock Safety systems and those trying to ban them entirely."
From major cities like Los Angeles canceling its Flock contract to towns wrapping Flock AI cams in plastic bags because Flock won't take them down, it's a wild time for surveillance and questions about government accountability.
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