My local government had funds offered by a federal grant they didn't apply for. A neighboring county had applied for the federal grant, received a ton of money, and was dishing it out to police across the region.
Between this and local police working with ICE, it feels like a federal government takeover of everything. The sheriff of a neighboring county has his salary paid by ICE/DHS, and that isn't right. Federalized police departments.
This; anything else is just surveillance companies jockeying for contracts. Let's ban the thing that's bad, government's spying on their own citizens, please.
If it does get far enough to be introduced and to actual vote. I am guessing there will be a massive push by Flock to flood news outlets and lobbyists to how "successfully bad guys were caught" or otherwise "prevented." Probably lock-in on any instance(s) involving children being protected/found. With any and all misleading stats downplaying the actual levels of spying on literally everyone not doing anything illegal (or that children are being scanned and added to those growing databases). And the fucked up cases of false positives that drag those people into court, job losses from being accused/arrested, and financial losses from the first two.
Hard counter those efforts with detailed Info on high ranking officials from flock data through FOIA. Educate themasses on what's is being watched and how all data is combined into a detailed profile
My city lets you do this....maybe its not common. But here i can request all kinds of info from garbage collection right up to all info on Flock installations.
He's actually had a few other good ideas. He put forth a bill to designate AIPAC as a foreign agency so they couldn't lobby. This guy is better than all the other Republicans and at least half the dems.
That would be amazing, but I can't even consider there's a chance that it's anything more than performative. Maybe he genuinely wants that to happen, since he does seem to be one of the few US politicians actually against raping kids, but there's no way flock doesn't own a lot of the other politicians and have financial ties and data sharing contracts with bigger companies who own the rest of them.
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bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 83 pts · 48d
And remove and destroy all of the installed ones...right? Right?
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 48d
Aren’t most of them funded by local governments anyway?
(And then when the city councils or residents vote to stop it, the cops leave them up anyway?)
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 48d
This is so such local governments have other funding withdrawn until they get rid of the cameras, presumably
hash@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 48d
My local government had funds offered by a federal grant they didn't apply for. A neighboring county had applied for the federal grant, received a ton of money, and was dishing it out to police across the region.
dan1101@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 48d
Between this and local police working with ICE, it feels like a federal government takeover of everything. The sheriff of a neighboring county has his salary paid by ICE/DHS, and that isn't right. Federalized police departments.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 48d
Sounds like the police have too much money...
jjlinux@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 48d
What about Motorola and Axon cameras? They all need to go, no exceptions.
Artisian@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 47d
This; anything else is just surveillance companies jockeying for contracts. Let's ban the thing that's bad, government's spying on their own citizens, please.
bilb@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 47d
Yeah, as much as I'd enjoy seeing bad things happen to their smarmy dipshit CEO, this is true.
I suppose a bill like this might help bring the issue to the attention of some number of people, at least.
archy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 48d
Leonardo?
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 48d
This will never be passed because most of the people benefitting from Flock are the ones who will vote on the bill.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 48d
You think politicians like that them and their family member's every move is being tracked?
That puts them at risk
EnsignWashout@startrek.website · 7 pts · 48d
politicians like political donations.
deadcream@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 48d
They believe it will only be used against the plebs.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 47d
So let's show them that their greatest enemies have access to this data, and that the only way to keep themselves safe is to not collect it at all
dRLY@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 48d
If it does get far enough to be introduced and to actual vote. I am guessing there will be a massive push by Flock to flood news outlets and lobbyists to how "successfully bad guys were caught" or otherwise "prevented." Probably lock-in on any instance(s) involving children being protected/found. With any and all misleading stats downplaying the actual levels of spying on literally everyone not doing anything illegal (or that children are being scanned and added to those growing databases). And the fucked up cases of false positives that drag those people into court, job losses from being accused/arrested, and financial losses from the first two.
leftOverLife@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 48d
But what about the poor executives?!?!
/s
LordCrom@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 47d
Giving up freedom for security..yadda yadda
Hard counter those efforts with detailed Info on high ranking officials from flock data through FOIA. Educate themasses on what's is being watched and how all data is combined into a detailed profile
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 39d
I do not believe municipalities are obligated to respond to FOIA requests. Those are federal, or at least I though so.
LordCrom@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 38d
My city lets you do this....maybe its not common. But here i can request all kinds of info from garbage collection right up to all info on Flock installations.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 48d
Flock around and find out
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 48d
When the worst person you know has a good idea...
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 39d
He's actually had a few other good ideas. He put forth a bill to designate AIPAC as a foreign agency so they couldn't lobby. This guy is better than all the other Republicans and at least half the dems.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 47d
At the very least, it should require a warrant to access Flock data.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 47d
That would be amazing, but I can't even consider there's a chance that it's anything more than performative. Maybe he genuinely wants that to happen, since he does seem to be one of the few US politicians actually against raping kids, but there's no way flock doesn't own a lot of the other politicians and have financial ties and data sharing contracts with bigger companies who own the rest of them.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 48d
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