Flock reportedly planned to co-opt Uber and Lyft vehicles to expand its surveillance network

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/flock-reportedly-planned-to-co-opt-uber-and-lyft-vehicles-to-expand-its-surveillance-network

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9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 20d

Im sure Tesla and Waymo are already doing it as well. Any newer cars with cameras, I assume they are recording 24/7

jankforlife@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 20d

Surveillance Capitalism

corbindallas@fedinsfw.app · 9 pts · 20d (1 reply)

citizens should start to do the same things, track pigs and nazis, it can't be that fucking hard

SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 2 pts · 19d

You can technically buy your way into the system if you enough money. Just start a company in a sector that can have access to the network and buy the product. The whole thing is a blackmail machine and nobody can do it because people with enough money, don`t live clean lives. I am of the opinion that most politicians that push Flock are not actually being bribed but are being extorted.

chillpanzee@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 20d

I wonder how many of the major car manufacturers are already surreptitiously participating.

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 20d

This is why we wanted dumb cars

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 20d

The Separation of Powers desparately needs to be extended to cover the market

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 19d

Any company that partners with this sort of thing I will try my best to avoid.