Cameras, Cameras Everywhere – See Every Move You Make, by Patti Johnson

Creeping technototalitarianism keeps creeping. From Patti Johnson at theburningplatform.com:

Cameras, Cameras Everywhere – No Private Moment Safe

Have you noticed cameras going up everywhere? These cameras aren’t just crime-fighting tools, they’re the foundation of an American surveillance state, paid for with your tax dollars and owned by private billionaires. Drive past one of those innocuous “Flock” solar-powered poles and it instantly photographs your license plate and logs the make, model, color, bumper stickers, exact time and location – and then uploads everything to Flock’s private cloud. From there, thousands of police agencies nationwide can search your movements without a warrant, without suspicion and without you ever knowing. [1]

Flock Safety’s data can be integrated with “predictive” policing platforms, including Palantir’s software.

Think “Minority Report” – the well-known dystopian movie centered around predicting and preventing crime before it happens. The film’s tagline was even: “The system is perfect until it comes after you.”  Palantir, a company co-founded by Peter Thiel with initial funding from the CIA, is bringing battlefield-level surveillance and predictive policing capabilities straight into everyday local law enforcement. The system is marketed as “Your software is the weapons system.” Military tech being transferred to domestic policing raises major concerns.

Flock isn’t alone. Bosch’s DINION and AUTODOME ALPR and other cameras blanket highways and parking lots. Rekor, Vigilant Solutions (Motorola), PlateSmart, Verkada, red-light cameras, toll readers, Ring doorbells, Tesla dashcams and private security systems, all feed the same growing web. Data from these overlapping networks flows into shared law-enforcement databases and fusion centers, creating a permanent, searchable map of where every vehicle and every American go.

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