Okay, have you noticed those little cameras popping up on poles around LA and Orange County?<\/p>\n
They\u2019re called Flock cameras, and they\u2019re basically AI-powered license plate readers. When you drive past one, it can capture your license plate along with details about your car\u2026<\/p>\n
And that information goes into a searchable database that law enforcement can use to help find stolen cars, suspects or missing people.<\/p>\n
But people are starting to question just how much these things are tracking us.<\/p>\n
This has gotten so controversial in Costa Mesa which has 46 of these things\u2026that residents have been showing up at City Hall demanding they come down. There was even a case where former Costa Mesa police officer used Flock data to track his wife and his ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n
LAPD recently stopped its regular access to Flock data while it negotiates new privacy safeguards, but there are still 138 Flock cameras operating in the LA.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re curious, there\u2019s a crowdsourced website called DeFlock where you can pull up a map and see reported Flock cameras around your neighborhood\u2026 which is slightly creepy, but also absolutely something I\u2019m about to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Okay, have you noticed those little cameras popping up on poles around LA and Orange County? They\u2019re called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[59559,64215,64214,48,52,51,26492,47,50,49,64213,4201,4198,64212],"class_list":["post-429935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-102-7-kiis-fm","tag-kiis","tag-kiis-fm","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-la-radio","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-on-air-with-ryan","tag-radio","tag-ryan-seacrest","tag-sisanie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}