[tptacek]

This doesn't seem like a Flock story so much as SDPD making an arrest purely on a nexus to "red Alfa Romeo with tinted windows". From what I understand of the story, the Flock camera did in fact tag a red Alfa Romeo (there's a still frame in the article). It wasn't the right one, but ALPR cameras aren't psychic; they tell you features, make/model, and plate, not "criminal culpability".

[turtlesdown11]

right, its the cops who decide "criminal culpability" all Flock did was lead them to the wrong person...poor innocent Flock

[tptacek]

It didn't lead SDPD to any person at all. It led them to a red Alfa Romeo with tinted windows.

Flock doesn't do facial recognition. It's a real-time search engine for cars on video feeds.

[turtlesdown11]

as I posted elsewhere, a tool that requires perfect human oversight to avoid harming innocent people is a problem

[tptacek]

People are writing as if an ALPR directed these cops to arrest someone. No, it didn't. They asked it where they could find a red Alfa. It accurately told them. It's not the tool's fault it didn't occur to SDPD that there could in San Diego be in fact 2 red Alfas.

[turtlesdown11]

Is it also not the tool's fault that cops keep using it to stalk people?

https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using...

[tptacek]

I'm inferring from the fact that you've now switched stories that you concede the point I was making. Thanks! I'm less interested in debating this new story you want to talk about.