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Legal and Privacy issues
As has become standard practice for this growing mass surveillance industry, Motorola installs fixed cameras and ALPRs, which scan vehicles, faces, and more for identifying details. These data points are logged, and correlated to all other scans of those identifying details, so that each person's movements can be traced over time. However, compared to the deployment of Flock's surveillance infrastructure, Motorola has a very small footprint. They have been augmenting their widespread visibility, by contracting with vehicle operators including tow truck companies and fleet vehicles, to install mobile ALPRs. These roving ALPRs can provide sporadic coverage over wide areas, and cannot be easily avoided by privacy-conscious members of the public.<ref name="sltrib">https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/08/31/aclu-says-vigilant-flock-like/</ref> These mobile scanners are also available to law enforcement agencies and other customers. They also offer these AI-powered data collection systems in other form factors, including body cameras<ref>https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/video-security-access-control/in-car-video-systems.html</ref> and drones.<ref>https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/video-security-access-control/drones.html</ref>
As has become standard practice for this growing mass surveillance industry, Motorola installs fixed cameras and ALPRs, which scan vehicles, faces, and more for identifying details. These data points are logged, and correlated to all other scans of those identifying details, so that each person's movements can be traced over time. However, compared to the deployment of Flock's surveillance infrastructure, Motorola has a very small footprint. They have been augmenting their widespread visibility, by contracting with vehicle operators including tow truck companies and fleet vehicles, to install mobile ALPRs. These roving ALPRs can provide sporadic coverage over wide areas, and cannot be easily avoided by privacy-conscious members of the public.<ref name="sltrib">https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/08/31/aclu-says-vigilant-flock-like/</ref> These mobile scanners are also available to law enforcement agencies and other customers. They also offer these AI-powered data collection systems in other form factors, including body cameras<ref>https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/video-security-access-control/in-car-video-systems.html</ref> and drones.<ref>https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/video-security-access-control/drones.html</ref>
==Legal and Privacy issues==
Although the AI-powered mass surveillance which Motorola offers (through Vigilant) can be useful, it comes with some significant legal and ethical problems. The [[Fourth Amendment|Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution]] provides strong protections against "unreasonable searches and seizures," without a legal warrant, which clearly defines who is being subjected to a search, what place will be searched, and the duration of the search. It also needs to be signed by a judge. Based on legal precedent, tracking the movements of a person over time, is a form of a search, which therefore requires a specific and limited search warrant.<ref>https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/585/16-402/</ref><ref>https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/565/400/</ref>
Unfortunately, these systems are also prone to abuse. There have been many cases of those with access to unrestricted tracing data, using it to stalk former romantic partners,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/02/flock-police-surveillance-tech-birds-iran-press-freedom</ref>, groups of children,<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/flock-safety-employees-watched-kids-151737512.html</ref> and others.<ref>https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/</ref><ref>https://lookout.co/georgia-police-chief-arrested-for-using-flock-cameras-for-stalking-and-harassment-searched-capitola-data-earlier-this-year/story</ref><ref>https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/police-ai-surveillance-stalking</ref>
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