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.”
VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and database company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within the last six months.
But that Flock data does not connect automatically to your Axon evidence system,” the salesperson wrote.
The fact that a third-party company is advertising that it wants to do facial recognition on Flock data highlights a common trend in the surveillance space.