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Having been in Texas last month these cameras are all over your state. I saw them everywhere from the smallest city to houston https://imgur.com/a/P7WxKpU http

Having been in Texas last month these cameras are all over your state. I saw them everywhere from the smallest city to houston https://imgur.com/a/P7WxKpU https://imgur.com/a/P7WxKpU

kodablah 4mo ago
They're all basically turned off by law, just not removed
- rigrassm 4mo ago
  Go visit Harris County where Houston is, they are definitely active and more are getting deployed constantly. More commercial businesses are also installing them in their parking lots. It's not just Lowe's/Home Depot, I've seen new ones popping up at grocery stores and storage unit businesses. To go from my house to the grocery store 4 miles away, I have to drive by 6 flock camera deployments. Hardware store 6 miles away? That's at least 9-12 cameras I have to pass. I literally cannot leave my neighborhood without Flock knowing about it because they've installed them at every single entrance. And that's just the driving portion of a trip. I stopped going to Big box stores almost completely because I'm tired of looking up as I walk down the aisles and see a fucking screen showing me on camera with big red letters stating "Recording in progress". That's not enough though, you go to the self checkout and have cameras above you and in the checkout machines watching and recording and analyzing your every movement and facial expression. It's blatantly obvious what's going on if people would look up from their phones for 10 minutes and pay attention.
  - abalashov 4mo ago
    > if people would look up from their phones for 10 minutes and pay attention. Ah, that's a big ask in 2026...
assimpleaspossi 4mo ago
Make sure you're not looking at traffic control cameras. These are used to monitor traffic for the traffic lights.
hombre_fatal 4mo ago
I'm talking about red light cameras. Texas legislature ruled in 2019 that their photo evidence can't be used in court. Instead, a cop has to catch you in the act so now everyone runs red lights; I'm not even sure Houston puts cops on the traffic beat. And eventually you kinda entitle yourself to it too since the first part of your green light was spent waiting for other people to run their red light.

Having been in Texas last month these cameras are all over your state. I saw them everywhere from the smallest city to houston https://imgur.com/a/P7WxKpU https://imgur.com/a/P7WxKpU

kodablah 4mo ago

They're all basically turned off by law, just not removed

rigrassm 4mo ago
Go visit Harris County where Houston is, they are definitely active and more are getting deployed constantly. More commercial businesses are also installing them in their parking lots. It's not just Lowe's/Home Depot, I've seen new ones popping up at grocery stores and storage unit businesses. To go from my house to the grocery store 4 miles away, I have to drive by 6 flock camera deployments. Hardware store 6 miles away? That's at least 9-12 cameras I have to pass. I literally cannot leave my neighborhood without Flock knowing about it because they've installed them at every single entrance. And that's just the driving portion of a trip. I stopped going to Big box stores almost completely because I'm tired of looking up as I walk down the aisles and see a fucking screen showing me on camera with big red letters stating "Recording in progress". That's not enough though, you go to the self checkout and have cameras above you and in the checkout machines watching and recording and analyzing your every movement and facial expression. It's blatantly obvious what's going on if people would look up from their phones for 10 minutes and pay attention.
- abalashov 4mo ago
  > if people would look up from their phones for 10 minutes and pay attention. Ah, that's a big ask in 2026...

assimpleaspossi 4mo ago

Make sure you're not looking at traffic control cameras. These are used to monitor traffic for the traffic lights.

hombre_fatal 4mo ago

I'm talking about red light cameras. Texas legislature ruled in 2019 that their photo evidence can't be used in court. Instead, a cop has to catch you in the act so now everyone runs red lights; I'm not even sure Houston puts cops on the traffic beat. And eventually you kinda entitle yourself to it too since the first part of your green light was spent waiting for other people to run their red light.