{"id":64910,"date":"2026-09-30T11:25:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64910"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:25:50","slug":"404-media-surveillance-company-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64910","title":{"rendered":"404 Media: Surveillance Company Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>404 Media: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras\/\">Surveillance Company Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras<\/a> by Jason Kobler (keep in mind it only requires a software update):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As Flock continues to be the center of a nationwide conversation about automatic license plate reading cameras, the company has said that it doesn\u2019t, and won\u2019t, do facial recognition: &#8216;We will not add facial recognition to our devices,&#8217; Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a recent video. But other, third-party companies are telling cops that they are willing to add facial recognition to data gathered by Flock cameras in order to &#8216;close that gap.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A company called VIDIZMO is advertising the capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds. VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and database company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within the last six months. In a May email to Johnson City, Tennessee, deputy police chief Michael Adams, a salesperson from VIDIZMO wrote that the company\u2019s product could do facial recognition on both Flock and Axon data in &#8216;one searchable platform.&#8217;\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company also tells cops that it can automatically try to classify faces by &#8216;age, gender, and race,&#8217; and that cops can search by these categories, which are notoriously inaccurate in facial recognition systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>404 Media: Surveillance Company Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras by Jason Kobler (keep in mind it only requires a software update):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automatic-license-plate-readers","category-facial-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64911,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64910\/revisions\/64911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}