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The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley.

“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

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[–] Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app 9 points 3 days ago

Take your cameras down and maybe people don't want to destroy them. Good compromise, eh?

[–] comador@lemmy.world 57 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 20 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I’ve already picked out my costume!!

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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Funny. I don't know why but my brain keep reading the title as: "Fuck CEO".

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[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 54 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's wild, because when I was a kid, there was this huge conservative talking point about how trading freedom for security was bad.

Conservatives are all about freedom until there's profit involved.

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[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 47 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We're already in the safest time for petty crime ever, and flock won't help with America's real issue of corporate crime. Safety will not be affected.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Nah.

No compromise with our rights being infringed upon.

Destroy them all.

[–] ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's how you know the reasons behind flock is nefarious, when they have to scale back what they're doing because of how blatantly obvious the overreach and invasion of privacy.

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[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you get rid of your right to privacy, you get rid of your right to safety.

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[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Here's the compromise: Take down the cameras and people won't guillotine you.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 40 points 4 days ago
[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 29 points 4 days ago

Okay, here’s the compromise: you close everything down, and we don’t feed you to a hungry business of ferrets.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 21 points 3 days ago
[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I think one of the problems that encompasses the flock debate besides the privacy issues is the relationship that the police have with people in the United States. Most police view people as a threat and if you look at the police training they teach them to be extremely violent. During simple traffic stops most police are on edge and have an attitude like they might be violent with you. I'm just talking about the general atmosphere- I'm not even getting into all of the examples where police have killed people for no reason, falsified information to arrest innocent people, and generally abused their power.

Did police want to wear body cams or did they want to continue without accountability? Police have a responsibility and have taken an oath. They should be required to have cameras.

In a society where all of its parts work together towards the same goal, ALPRs would not be a problem. In the US this surveillance is very worrisome.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Fuck these clowns. Their “compromise” is finding some way to quiet the bad press while continuing to do what they’ve been doing.

“We’ll stop putting our cameras where people don’t want them and just put then where our clients want them.”

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Remember that town Winona where all eight of their Flock cameras were cut down?

CNN has an interview with a town councilman who says “we’ll just wait until all the news dies down and everyone will forget about all this”

Our elected officials all think we should live in a big PRISON

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[–] ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Safety for who, exactly, Garrett? Because the common people aren't safer with this overreach

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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

-Ben Franklin

In other words: Fuck you, Flock.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

Okay, here's the compromise: disband your company and we'll put away the guillotines.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 22 points 4 days ago

He says as he continues to launch surveillance drones without asking anybody if they're okay with that...

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Safety? They constantly put innocent victims at risk by misidentifying them as the criminals!!!

Odd description of 'safety'

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago

I'm amazed at how their concern for our safety allows them to do all sorts of heinous shit for ~~profit~~ our safety.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago

What compromise? Where's your warrant to search our lives, our comings and goings? Rich people don't have to deal with this harassment.

[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago

No quarter for flock cameras no compromise with surveillance tech ceos

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 21 points 4 days ago

Hey buddy, you didn't ask us about shit before you started installing your creepy cameras to monitor us everywhere, so you can go ahead and fuck off now.

[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

I agree

And the compromise no cameras, more privacy

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

The compromise is we let you take your cameras down instead of drawing and quartering you.

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