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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Dani Oh

Flock Camera Captured 1.6M Images in 21 Days as Leaked Code Shows It Detects People

Recovered Flock camera data and software show rapid-fire image capture, person detection and object classification beyond license plates (Credit: Amanpour and Company/YouTube)

A Flock Safety camera generated about 1.6 million images of roughly 50,200 vehicles across about 21 days of recoverable logs, according to a joint analysis of the device's data and software by WIRED and 404 Media.

The recovered software also explicitly detects people, recording where they appear in an image and how confident the system is in the detection. WIRED extracted the relevant models from the camera and found they detected a reporter in a selfie and people in 11 recovered video clips.

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