Surveillance Vendor Pitches Facial Recognition for Flock Camera Data Despite Flock Pledge

Surveillance Vendor Pitches Facial Recognition for Flock Camera Data Despite Flock Pledge

VIDIZMO told a Tennessee police department it could combine Flock and Axon evidence with facial-search technology, even as Flock Safety publicly promises it will not ... The post Surveillance Vendor Pitches Facial Recognition for Flock Camera Data Despite Flock Pledge first appeared on [your]NEWS.

Flock says no to facial recognition, but another company is already pitching it to police

Flock Safety publicly vows its license plate cameras will never use facial recognition. Surveillance vendor VIDIZMO pitched Johnson City, Tennessee police on a tool that adds facial search to Flock and Axon data anyway. VIDIZMO's CEO admits the export tool isn't built yet but wants to add it, calling facial recognition inevitable. The company's software also sorts people by estimated race, age and gender, drawing sharp criticism from a privac…

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.