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FedEx's Secretive Police Force Is Helping Cops Build a Car Surveillance Network
FedEx is using AI car surveillance technology made by Flock Safety, a $4 billion startup. Its own private police force is accessing local cops’ Flock camera feeds too.
To civil rights activists, such close collaboration has the potential to dramatically expand Flock’s car surveillance network, which already spans 4,000 cities across over 40 states and some 40,000 cameras that track vehicles by license plate, make, model, color and other identifying characteristics, like dents or bumper stickers. Michael Allinger, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department spokesperson, said that the agency was not a paying customer of Flock, but could still access cameras owned by a number of private organizations, including, shopping malls, residential areas maintained by homeowners’ associations, and schools. “The technology has been used in response to warrants and subpoenas, as well as in other scenarios regarding potential or ongoing crimes on the facilities’ premises – and it has supported the arrest and prosecution of those committing crimes.” She said that the cameras were clearly labeled to disclose to passersby that they were filming, though declined to comment on where the company had deployed the surveillance devices.
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