Members of law enforcement agencies may have the ability to track the medical appointments of any patient of Kaiser Permanente (which owns Geisinger in Pennsylvania), without a warrant and without any probable cause, for any reason that may interest them.
FedEx’s Secretive Police Force Aids in Building AI Car Surveillance Network July 21, 2024 Forbes has identified at least four major corporations using Flock, none of which had publicly disclosed their contracts with the company. Previously, Forbes reported that Simon Property, the country’s largest mall owner, and home improvement giant Lowe’s are significant clients. Both companies have shared their Flock camera feeds with local police. Lowe’s, for instance, shares its feeds with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department spokesperson Michael Allinger said the agency, while not a paying customer, can access cameras owned by private entities, including shopping malls, residential areas maintained by homeowners’ associations, and schools. Additionally, Kaiser Permanente, the largest health insurance company in America, shares Flock data with the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, which supports local and federal police investigating major crimes. Kaiser Permanente confirmed using Flock technology to protect its members, patients, visitors, employees, and physicians at its facilities.
Apparently lawyer pundits have been saying this is legal. But is it what America is really about? That’s not what I was told. And we know about abuse of power.
FedEx Trucks Will Be Spying On You For the Police Steve Lehto Jul 9, 2024 Among other things think about all the times you’ve heard of police officers getting in trouble for running the license plates or driver’s licenses of people they just felt like looking up did it stop in traffic no why are they looking it up oh it’s somebody that they’re mad at or it’s it’s it’s somebody the opposite sex they like to get to know better oh you can look up our driver’s license see where she lives maybe start driving by her house now see if she likes a man in a uniform so this this to me is a concern so it’s where we are right now we’ll see if it keeps creeping in that direction or if maybe we can kind of slow it down
My letter to reps:
If this is legal, it shouldn’t be. I don’t think it’s appropriate for Fedex and Geisinger (Kaiser) to install cameras everywhere to spy on patients and citizen porches and yards and driveways, and then have other entities like police just be able to go into these systems and look up people with NO probable cause and no warrant. We know that some people will be looking into people they suspect are getting vaccinated, or maybe they think are attractive women. It’s just not appropriate to spy on people at their medical appointments and have that data open to the highest bidders and law enforcement without a warrant. There’s all sorts of problems here. At the very least you would think medical information like that would need probable cause before you can stalk people pointlessly at their medical appointments. We need laws to protect patients and residents from this kind of surveillance. And who else is this Flock company selling access to? Foreign actors? Financial investors? Ex-husbands? Extremist militias? We can probably assume they’re being given to insurance. Someone needs to get to the bottom of this, and put a stop to it because it’s not 1984 and I was always told we lived in a free country. This doesn’t feel free.
Feel free to copy my letter or points from my letter to write to your own elected representatives.