• Bluefruit@lemmy.world
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    Its almost like privacy is a good thing.

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

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    This is a periodic reminder. I’m on mobile so I’m copying a previous comment.

    Flock Safety is only the tip of the problem.

    Some districts are de-Flocking only to install an Axon ALPR network service. Keep fighting until your community outlaws all ALPRs and ALPR lookups are inadmissable in court.

    There are other technologies that are already in use and widely abused by law enforcement such as IMSI catchers, geofence warrants and Drones as First Responder. Learn what your district allows and be a civil nuisance untill that shit is blocked.

    Judges have long ceased tightly constraining judicial warrants, and most courts accept the good faith exception, so US and state courts cannot be trusted with any overreaching surveillance technology or forensic tools. This includes chromatic field drug tests and detection dogs.

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    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.

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    What’s the problem? I thought privacy was a small price to pay for “safety?”

    Sounds like that Kirk guy on guns.

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    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.

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    "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.

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      “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.

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      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.

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    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.

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

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      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.