SDPD jailed the wrong person for several weeks based on Flock ALPR. Flock has led to wrongful accusation elsewhere, and now it happened here.
Tell City Council and @MayorToddGloria not a cent more for for Flock!
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#surveillance #sandiego
Join community on Monday May 4th (today!) at the City of San Diego’s Evening Budget Hearing to tell the City what you want funded instead of Flock smart streetlights. With arts and children's services chopped, there's so much more to want than surveillance
6pm at 202 C Street, SD City Hall, 12th fl
In materials reviewed by 404, a Flock employee stated "You're going to be able to access data and jump from LPR to person and understand what that context is, link to other people that are related to that person by marriage or through gang affiliation, et cetera..."
Show up at PAB today (in person, online) and tell them if they should approve the Flock policy. Find the agenda and zoom link here: www.sandiego.gov/sites/defaul...
Flock Nova is a "platform [that] integrates police departments' investigative data." More startlingly, it "gives SDPD access to 'open source intelligence' [data scraped and bought online] and data from other law enforcement agencies" according to the SDPD Flock contract.
Beryl Lipton of @eff explains "for police, the definition of what is considered 'open source' has really expanded to include information to which no one should have ever had access. Our health data, our financial records, or any of our other digital data is hacked and ends up on the internet."
Last Dec, SDPD quietly signed a contract for Flock Nova without going through the Privacy Advisory Board or public oversight process. Nova, like Palantir, links and integrates in house and "open source intelligence." www.axios.com/local/san-di...
#alpr #flock #surveillance
While City Council was filled with thousands of people asking for the Flock contract to be dropped, SDPD signed a contract (same month!) with Flock for Nova, the Palantir-like data fusion software without bringing it to the public.
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What is Flock Nova, the service SDPD quietly adopted last December according to Axios?
404 media reports that Flock Nova is a "massive people look up tool" that uses open source intelligence and agency data to find links between people.
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A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit, after San Diego Police misinterpreted a hit from a license plate reader.
