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> have had for decades have recently become big news in America, I believe because they're now being used for immigration purposes?

That is one aspect.

But they are also now "using AI to analyze vehicle movements for suspicious patterns and proactively alerting police to investigate". What could possibly go wrong with that?

Or that there are microphones in certain Flock devices, and they've discussed their intent to activate those and do that with speech analysis.

Garrett Langley, the CEO, has a disturbingly Minority Report-esque vision for a world with, in his words, "no crime", "thanks to Flock".

And these are all steps towards it. Interesting you mention Ring, because Flock has partnered with Amazon and is opting all Ring footage into Flock's network and analyses.





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