Kashmir Hill
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457 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 31 Aug
Kashmir Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It will say where the photo was taken, when, and which agencies, cameras took it.
It's pretty simple, but police say it makes their jobs much easier.
The CEO of Flock says that the company helped solve more than a million crimes last year.
I don't have the reporting to back that up, but police chiefs did tell us that it is really.
Really a useful tool for solving crimes.
But this makes it really easy to track Americans.
And you know, we're all in the database if you're driving cars in the 49 states where they have their cameras and it's not just people who have committed crimes.
And that is just making people very, very uncomfortable that this is too powerful a tool that is surveilling too many of us.
Yeah, one of the cases that has gotten the most attention and was originally reported by 404 media was a woman who was suspected of self-administering an abortion in Texas.
And an officer searched flock cameras to see where she had traveled, if she was out of state, to try to track her down.
There have been examples of police officers abusing their access to these systems to track exes or love interests or romantic partners.
Oh my God.
And one of the kind of big concerns has been how immigration officers are using these cameras for immigration enforcement.
Yes, I was trying to track down people that they want to deport.
And it's not just civil libertarians that are criticizing this.
Cities themselves have been surprised that their cameras have been accessed for immigration enforcement.
So some cities have paused or canceled their contracts with Flock after discovering that because they basically didn't realize that when they were making it available nationally, that meant they were making it
available to federal law enforcement like ICE.
Yeah, I mean Flock says that they don't have a contract with ICE for one.
And the way that this is happening is actually ICE agents are partnering with local police departments and then searching the networks of cameras that they have access to.
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