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[–] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 8 points 22 minutes ago

Its almost like privacy is a good thing.

Hope nothing bad happens to you. Surely not. Flock cameras make everything safer right?

[–] theblurstoftimes@leminal.space 3 points 26 minutes ago

Just keeping him safe. Maybe keeping the neighbors safe. Need to see if there’s a blue dot on his house.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 3 points 22 minutes ago

Maybe put up some cameras all around his house and social life and broadcast it while at it

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago) (1 children)

Dude fuck that guy

Massive criminal

[–] ElDuderino@lemmus.org 1 points 7 minutes ago

Personally, I wouldnt fuck him with somebody else's dick.

[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 2 points 24 minutes ago

Doesn't having more privacy make you feel more safe? Not the other way around?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 31 minutes ago

He's cool with stealing all of our data, and making us feel helpless about what others are doing with it, so I don't see why he shouldn't feel that same fear.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 35 minutes ago

Checking, checking...yep, he's on The List.

[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 64 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

What's the problem? I thought privacy was a small price to pay for "safety?"

Sounds like that Kirk guy on guns.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 3 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

Nöw im waiting for Langley to cop a camera to the neck.

I just realized that the guy selling all of these surveillance cameras has the same name as the CIA headquarters. The writers of this reality are too damn lazy.

[–] Alexfire@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 49 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 18 points 7 hours ago

And bring lots of cameras, filming the house from all angles

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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.

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[–] korazail@eviltoast.org 21 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

"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.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 1 points 10 minutes ago

"holding our law enforcement community accountable".

lol can't even bootlick properly. He probably thought this would earn him some points from the left but all it will achieve is major hate from right. Law enforcement may soon be looking the other way when someone reports a flock camera being taken down.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] Folstar@lemmus.org 18 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I hope he never has another moment of peace in his entire life until Flock is abolished. Even then....

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 34 minutes ago

Oh, no, he's proven who he is at his core. He doesn't deserve a second of peace for the rest of his life.

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 37 points 8 hours ago

'If he's done nothing wrong there's nothing to hide'

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 54 points 10 hours ago

He just needs to compromise on his privacy.

[–] Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 31 points 9 hours ago

Good. Very good. I hope he feels true fear. I hope he gets what is deserved.

[–] JIMMERZ@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago

Nothing wrong with instilling a little bit of healthy fear in the rich and powerful.

[–] ContactClosure@lemmus.org 21 points 9 hours ago

Let's start a car tracker log for him like that one person did for elons planes.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

He took the risk of pissing off the masses for profit. And it looks that he now faces the consequences.

[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 40 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

This is public information see https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/BusinessSearch/BusinessInformation
Search for flock group and you will get the address.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago

Only a couple hours from me. Isn't this a business/office address though?

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 123 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

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Well well well..

[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 284 points 17 hours ago (30 children)

He should just point a flock camera at his house. Then he’ll be 80% safer based on a study I just made up like the ones on their sales pitch.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Would be a shame if someone created a network of cameras tracking his every move and posted it online for free in real time. Nothing illegal about that, right? No implicit threat in that, right?

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[–] razen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Now people should take care of his safety

[–] artyom@piefed.social 187 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's okay, he has nothing to hide, right?

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[–] wedge@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Hate to tell ya’ll but it’s highly unlikely the CEO of Flock lives in that house. It’s either misinformation or a honeypot. You don’t sell out your country and live in a house on a plot of land that small and without armed security.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 26 minutes ago (1 children)

If it's in Texas or Florida, it's probably just a phony residence, so he doesn't have to pay state taxes.

[–] wedge@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 25 minutes ago

It’s Atlanta, Georgia in a very modest burb on a very small plot of land. 100% not where he is living.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

if it wasn't his address we would have already heard that it wasn't.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

It's entirely possible. People rarely think bad things will happen to them.

[–] ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca 19 points 13 hours ago

Are they calling for a mustached Italian plumber?

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