Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
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Re: Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
#2Anti-Pinkerton Fed act: Gov't may not buy services that it is not legally allowed to do themselves.
Re: Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
#3Anti-Pinkerton Fed act: Gov't may not buy services that it is not legally allowed to do themselves.
Re: Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
#4This is going to happen in a lot of places that aren't large enough to make news: people dumping Flock over bad publicity, and simply installing ALPR cameras from vendors smart enough not to get themselves embroiled in politics.
Re: Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
#5Anti-Pinkerton Fed act: Gov't may not buy services that it is not legally allowed to do themselves.
Municipal governments are extremely allowed to track license plates within their borders and have been doing so for generations.
Re: Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
#6Seems like a good move. Lots of value to ALPR systems responsibly managed. Flock is just an ass of a company.
Re: Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
#7This is going to happen in a lot of places that aren't large enough to make news: people dumping Flock over bad publicity, and simply installing ALPR cameras from vendors smart enough not to get themselves embroiled in politics.
AXON seems to be really good about not pushing things too far. I don't know if they lobby/amplify the need for police body cameras, however. Even that, IMO, doesn't have the stench of evil
They must be making huge profits, assuming every bodycam needs some kind of recurring revenue (for evidence.com, maintenance, replacements). BUT as far as I can tell, they are also taking the judicial requirements very seriously. Unlike Flock, I haven't heard anything about AXON providing tools to circumvent the 4th amendment. In fact, AXON makes tools that make it easier to comply with the law. For example, record requests for bodycam videos are (again, afaik) easy to satisfy with their tech.
I don't know what ownership they have of videos stored on their services. Can they use it for LLM training? can they sell anonymized data? do they? no idea, but trust in Flock is at about a 0 out of 10.
Re: Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
#8This is going to happen in a lot of places that aren't large enough to make news: people dumping Flock over bad publicity, and simply installing ALPR cameras from vendors smart enough not to get themselves embroiled in politics.
AXON seems to be really good about not pushing things too far. I don't know if they lobby/amplify the need for police body cameras, however. Even that, IMO, doesn't have the stench of evil They must be making huge profits, assuming every bodycam needs some kind of recurring revenue (for evidence.com, maintenance, replacements). BUT as far as I can tell, they are also taking the judicial requirements very seriously. U…
AXON wrote the book that Flock put into practice. They have really great lobbyists that shield them from any news.
Re: Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
#9Anti-Pinkerton Fed act: Gov't may not buy services that it is not legally allowed to do themselves.
Municipal governments are extremely allowed to track license plates within their borders and have been doing so for generations.
But do they not need a warrant to track someones movements?
Alot of these tech vendors have been a way to launder data gathering to avoid neeidng to get warrants
Re: Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
#10I thought Flock and Axon were affiliated.