Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
While Flock Safety has explicitly stated it will not add facial recognition to its devices, a third-party company named VIDIZMO is marketing tools to police departments that can perform this analysis on Flock camera data. VIDIZMO claims its platform can integrate Flock footage with other evidence sources to enable facial recognition, behavior prediction, and demographic analysis. The company's CEO expressed a strong belief that facial recognition is an inevitable technological trend, despite acknowledging that the specific integration tool has not yet been fully built.
- ▪Flock CEO Garrett Langley stated that the company will not add facial recognition to its devices.
- ▪VIDIZMO is advertising a product that can export FlockOS footage to its own platforms for facial recognition and racial or gender analysis.
- ▪A sales email from VIDIZMO to the Johnson City, Tennessee police department proposed using their technology to connect Flock data with Axon body-worn camera footage.
- ▪VIDIZMO CEO Nadeem Khan admitted the specific Flock integration tool has not yet been built but stated the company would love to develop it.
- ▪VIDIZMO's online documentation claims its AI products can identify individuals on watchlists and analyze behavior in real-time video feeds.
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As Flock continues to be the center of a nationwide conversation about automatic license plate reading cameras, the company has said that it doesn’t, and won’t, do facial recognition: “We will not add facial recognition to our devices,” Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a recent video. But other, third-party companies are telling cops that they are willing to add facial recognition to data gathered by Flock cameras in order to “close that gap.” A company called VIDIZMO is advertising the capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds.
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