Civil Rights Analyst Calls FedEx Surveillance Program 'Profoundly Disconcerting'

Flock (YC17) is the primary facilitator here, along with their ALPRs. This is the first, and surely not the last, where the data they collect for law enforcement, HOAs and others, ends up in the hands of industry.

Should have seen this coming.

Ubiquitous delivery service sticks panopticon on every vehicle, cops get warrant, company is happy to help.

And what does Fedex need data from the cops for?

Police shouldn’t be able to share any kind of data with any private entity without public approval.

If you want to run a perfect dictatorship, just wait a few years until private companies have built perfect surveillance technology and infrastructure for the whole country. Then take it over and you have tools that Hitler, Stalin or the Ingsoc party of “1984” could only have dreamt of. And as long as profits keep flowing, private companies will happily cooperate.