What’s the problem? I thought privacy was a small price to pay for “safety?”
Sounds like that Kirk guy on guns.
Quite a campaign to quietly install these all over the country, use free pilot programs, kept the cost low enough to not need city council vote after public discussions and hide in tech costs, so the fuss happens after they wasted all this money. Talk about fraud and scamming the public out of tax money, and used against the public and w/o our actual consent. They’re supposed to serve and work for We The People, but used multiple methods to lie and hide it from us. Doing the wrong thing has to be hidden, not honest things.
"We announced changes that required auditing, that required using our audit assistance tool, which detects abnormal behavior, and we’re calling on state regulators to focus less on banning this type of technology and more [on] holding our law enforcement community accountable.”
This is absolutely passing the buck. “The collection of your data isn’t wrong, it’s just the myriad ways it can be abused. We want to play whack-a-mole for every problem; as unelected corporate policy that totally isn’t purely profit driven.”
Not-a-lawyer, but I’m quite sure I haven’t signed any TOS allowing Flock to capture or retain my data for any amount of time. Just by driving through a city where some other idiot signed away my rights probably shouldn’t hold up in court.
Legislation should be prioritizing punishing misuse of PII, expanding what PII means in our modern world, and enforcing information sharing barriers instead of eroding them.
If you can tell exactly where I was yesterday at 2:35pm because my car’s internal spyware pinged, my cellphone pinged, I drove past a few ALPR cameras and my credit card was used at a vendor, all without a warrant; then the related data is PII and needs to be protected in a way it isn’t currently.
Corporations should not have data-sharing agreements with governments and should not be allowed to sell their user data to third parties at all.
I work for a city that installed flock cameras. Their salesman insisted it was just license plate identification and nothing else when making the pitch to City Council.
The new city manager and I recently read through our “contract” with them. It’s a hyperlink to their TOS on their website. We have nothing in writing and they can change the terms any time they want.
I expect Council to have them removed soon.
I hope he never has another moment of peace in his entire life until Flock is abolished. Even then…
Folks should show up at the edge of his property with lawn chairs and coolers and just “hang out”. Don’t speak to him or threaten him in anyway, just sit there and Document everything he does. When he complains tell him it’s for his safety and he should thank them.
And bring lots of cameras, filming the house from all angles
You’d need to get the attention of MAGA on this if you wanted people to do stuff IRL
They’d drive a convoy around his block blasting Metallica for a week after coordinating with their friends in the police and bringing donuts to local tow companies. Maybe if you’re lucky someone on the left will flyer a coffee shop in Chicago.
That would actually be hilarious im ngl to u
‘If he’s done nothing wrong there’s nothing to hide’
Nothing wrong with instilling a little bit of healthy fear in the rich and powerful.
He just needs to compromise on his privacy.
Good. Very good. I hope he feels true fear. I hope he gets what is deserved.
Let’s start a car tracker log for him like that one person did for elons planes.
He took the risk of pissing off the masses for profit. And it looks that he now faces the consequences.
Well well well…
Now people should take care of his safety
This is public information see https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/BusinessSearch/BusinessInformation
Search for flock group and you will get the address.Only a couple hours from me. Isn’t this a business/office address though?
concerns over privacy and potential police misuse.
Couldn’t even go one sentence without propaganda. It’s very well documented that it is ACTIVELY being misused. Concerns is their “allegedly” to escape libel allegations, this was a choice.
I’ll say this as many times as it takes. NEWSWEEK ISNT FUCKING NEWS. IT IS A TABLOID. IT IS LESS THAN NOTHING. STOP FUCKING POSTING IT AND GIVING THESE GHOULS MONEY.
Thinking we need a shareable list of good alternatives we can share to other people.
Anyone got some good independent news sources we can share and use?
There’s a community focused on independent journalism that might interest y’all [email protected]
Just made this post after doing this, hope it’s acted on.
https://vger.to/sh.itjust.works/post/65820322
If anyone wants to help, please engage that post in hopes that the development team acts on it.
