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Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (news.ycombinator.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 64 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Flock cameras need to be banned, and the ones that are left should absolutely be destroyed. There is no excuse for having these things in communities.

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I believe the collection of the information is inevitable. What I would push for instead of driving them to make the cameras and databases more clandestine than they already are is for the information that they collect to be made openly available to all.

    As things are, it's a very asymmetrical power tool for the advantage of the (government) operators.

    When ALL the information is available to everyone, we can talk about where the cameras do and do not need to be. And any unapproved cameras can be suppressed as evidence against private individuals.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    That's like saying that it's inevitable that murder and rape will happen.

    Just because someone is going to do it eventually doesn't mean that you shouldn't have the death penalty for doing it.

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  • [+] -6 points 5 months ago

    No, that's like saying that it's inevitable that indoor plumbing and air conditioning will continue to spread and be adopted by everyone who can afford them. Or that the police will use national computer databases to track criminals, and helicopters for urban surveillance and pursuit. Or that the military is going to use more drones in the future.

    Even before everyone carried GPS trackers in their pockets and digital cameras became dirt cheap, you were being tracked and analyzed by your credit card: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

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