c/technology · by GolfFoxtrotLima@ani.social · 23h

Sensing He's in Deep Trouble, Flock Safety CEO Says It's All Been a Big Misunderstanding

https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-safety-ceo-big-misunderstanding

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/44082154

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30 Comments

ooterness@lemmy.world · 123 pts · 22h (3 replies)

Get bent, fascist. You are literally Big Brother.

artyom@piefed.social · 57 pts · 22h (2 replies)

Worse, Big Brother is regulated. Totally legal for citizens to invade the privacy of the general public and then sell it to the govt.

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 18h

Yeah, flock is just another head in the fascist hydra.

This company failing will have no impact whatsoever on the expansion of the surveillance state, or fascisms implementation of totalitarianism.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 7h

Totally legal for citizens

* companies. Companies are citizen+

WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 72 pts · 21h (9 replies)

The company has partnered with 6,000 law enforcement agencies and 1,000 private customers, leading to terrifying false arrests and even crooked cops stalking innocent women.

How can we make people see that these problems were happening before anyone had heard of Flock? Flock is just amplifying the worst things about American policing.

Flock isn't even the first system of surveillance cameras and ALPR cameras, they're just the first with national-scale panopticon ambitions.

lemmyout@lemmy.zip · 37 pts · 20h (3 replies)

There is this recurring theme of comments I keep seeing. "If you think this is bad, well it's nothing new, you should know what's been going on the whole time!".

binarytobis@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 19h

The reaction they should have is “I’m glad this is finally getting attention!”

Zorque@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 19h (1 reply)

I see it more as "This is a symptom of greater problems, we need to attack the root cause and not just react to the surface level stuff that's most obvious"

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 17h

Why not both?

Sure attack the real cause. That's the real work, the hard work, it takes time but is the only lasting solution.

But let's not make it EASY for them! Take out the Flock cameras everywhere every time they're spotted, and fight new installations before they happen. Make it clear that public opinion is against them, that they're anti-safety implements that erode civil society and abolishing them should be the first step in reclaiming the basic rights of humanity, such as privacy and bodily autonomy.

funkreddit@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 20h

What’s your point?

antianarchist@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 17h (2 replies)

I’d even go a step further and say that only because of Flock’s good auditing, those cases were revealed. Which means at the same time, that in the past, police officers were doing the same, just hidden.

Kinda like a “don’t shoot the messenger” situation.

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 14h (1 reply)

That shows that we don't need more surveillance of the general population, just of cops and those that hold office.

antianarchist@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 11h

Surveillance was never the issue. Crime rate is high because people have no education, no jobs with fair salary, no future. Especially if you have a health condition, chances are that your life will be better inside a prison because of the included healthcare.

Fucked up situation. And it will take decades of recovery.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 11h

also profiling protestors too.

sel@piefed.social · 49 pts · 16h (1 reply)

The thing that bothers me the most is how fucking retarded these takes are. “We’re protecting the people!!” Bro we were just fine before you came in to survey us. Such a crock of shit like the only way we’ll catch crime is with these cameras and database of everyone fuck off.

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 38 pts · 14h

Crime is declining in general, and would decline further if the money going towards mass surveillance went toward social security nets and such.

NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 21h (2 replies)

Help! I've shot myself in the face on purpose! How can I reassure investors that I am still a capable CEO!?

TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 21h

I bet doing it again would reassure investors. I know it would reassure me.

CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 16h

Maybe he can get another news interview where he uses the opportunity to call people opposed to Flock "terrorists" yet again. That ought to do the trick.

walden@wetshav.ing · 31 pts · 17h

There are two of these in my little town. One of them was right outside my neighborhood and it got cut down earlier this month and I'm super happy about it.

I posted about them on F-book (it's either that or Nextdoor when trying to reach people locally) when they were first installed and there were a lot of boot lickers. "It helps the police so I'm all for it", etc.

Someone else posted more recently the the mood has shifted substantially since a year ago. People are more aware and more upset about them.

sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 21h (4 replies)

Fuck that guy with a cactus.

johsny@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 20h (1 reply)

And then fuck a cactus with that guy.

palordrolap@fedia.io · 3 pts · 16h

What's the cactus done to deserve that?

GolfFoxtrotLima@ani.social · 4 pts · 20h (1 reply)

That guy fucks cactuses

turdburglar@piefed.social · 1 pts · 12h

*cacti

goatinspace@feddit.org · 27 pts · 22h