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uspol, dystopian surveillance
I had a rather unsettling and frankly insulting incident last night at work.
I work retail and my store has had one of those (I'm guessing Flock operated maybe?) portable police camera things for at least a year or more.
It's a little tiny trailer with a solar panel and a spire that's probably 10 or 15ft high with at least four cameras at the top, that can all be folded up for transport.
So I'm out pushing carts in the miserable heat near this godforsaken camera apparatus, and suddenly I hear something to the effect of "You in the red reflective vest, you must leave this area immediately!"
At some point quite recently, they apparently activated the ability of this little trailer to yell at passersby. It's like the cop version of those car alarms that chirp if you walk too closely by it in a cramped parking garage.
It was presumably AI-initiated. But it managed to identify not just that I was wearing a red vest, but a red vest with reflective strips. I guarantee you there was no one within visual range wearing a *red* safety vest with reflective strips (I'm the only one that wears that color because it's my own personal vest).
I was verbally accosted by an ACAB toaster with a video feed, for doing my job and daring to be in its general vicinity.
Creepy as fuck.
#uspol #flock #surveillance
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