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by tptacek 188 days ago
Flock doesn't do facial recognition.
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Even if you’re technically correct, that doesn’t mean they never will, or that downstream consumers of their data never will. They’re easy enough to hack and I’m sure it would be trivial for the NSA to siphon off the raw feed in real time if they wanted to and send it to a datacenter in Utah.
I was answering the parent commenter's question about what would happen if you confronted a Flock camera with a lot of faces. Answer: nothing.
Oh, yeah, looks like they only do general description on pedestrians. Stuff like orange sweater and black pants.
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