Home Depot, ICE, and Flock form Evil Public/Private Partnership

Does your Home Depot have flock cameras? Mine Does and ICE has done raids at my Home Depot?

Yea, that’s right. Home Depot shares Flock camera data with ICE. ICE isn’t targeting Home Depot’s randomly. They are tracking every vehicle using Home Depot’s Flock cameras. Here’s the graft from the article from 404media:

Hundreds of AI-powered automated license plate reading cameras paid for by Lowe’s and Home Depot and stationed in the hardware stores’ parking lots are being fed into a massive surveillance system that law enforcement can access, according to records obtained using a public records request.

The records, obtained from the Johnson County, Texas Sheriff’s Office by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and shared with 404 Media, show the sheriff’s office is able to tap into Flock license plate reading cameras at 173 different Lowe’s locations around the U.S. and that it can tap into cameras and gunshot-detecting microphones at dozens of Home Depot stores within Texas. The records are the latest to shed light on how expansive Flock’s surveillance network has become, and highlights that it includes cameras that are operated by both police and private businesses

Here’s the best map of flock cameras I’ve found. Deflock Map Is your Home Depot covered by Flock?