Leigh Thomas Brown warns that flock camera systems installed by HOAs perform facial recognition, read license plates, and track residents' movements without consent. She calls it private mass surveillance that violates the Fourth Amendment and says real estate professionals should disclose these cameras to prospective buyers.
If you're not paying attention, it's basically North Korea-style surveillance owned by a private company, accessed by God knows who, and you don't have any say over that as a citizen, which is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. Every state right now should have realtors contacting the real estate commission asking this question: What is our exposure as professional licensees when it comes to disclosure of flock cameras? Because if I've got buyers driving into a community, they have the right to know if the HOA put in flock cameras and now they're being surveilled when they just drive in to look at houses. Because these are not just license plate readers, y'all. These are looking at your face. They're looking at what your phone pings. They know when you leave, when you go. They're looking at all these characteristics and they are using this information for lots of reasons. I'm sure some are good because they want to stop crime, but I'm not willing to trade my privacy and my liberty for the idea of somebody else's
