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Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices (www.eff.org)
submitted 5 days ago by Anonymouse@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify signs of “human distress.”

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[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

They seem like an honest lot, I'm sure we can trust their word. After all, those things only look at license plates anyway.