[–] 376 points 2 months ago (24 children)

Love that some megacorp can just make decisions like this that affects billions of people.

Really just feeling the fucking freedom. I hate everything.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    They already scan every detail about the car other than the license plate (dents, scratches, color, bumper stickers, etc).

    Patent US11416545B1 is for scanning humans.

    Flock is insidious. Once the infrastructure is in place, all it takes is an update to turn them into something worse. Do some research, there's plenty of professional information and cases on the risks and "misuse" (working as intended) of these things. Good luck.

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  • [–] 246 points 5 months ago* (32 children)

    Good, fuck this panopticon dystopia shit.

    Also, some guy sliced the entire pole and left a message:

    hahaha get wrecked ya surveilling fucks

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  • [–] 91 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    The idea that you're somehow not entitled to privacy based on the publicity of a space has got to be one of the most successful propaganda campaigns used to strip privacy against the will of people.

    Fuck you, I want to take a walk and generally travel freely without being tracked by some fucking "Flock" or Ring camera, or uploaded unblurred to some randos Instagram where Meta and Clearview will train facial recognition and generative AI, or having my entire life story and biometric data collected at some airport.

    Take me back to the thousands of years humanity existed without obscenely invasive tech.

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  • [–] 121 points 7 months ago (12 children)

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  • submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
     

    Embedding facial recognition surveillance in a city-wide CCTV network represents a shocking expansion of police surveillance, and turns Cardiff into an Orwellian zone of biometric surveillance. This unprecedented use of the technology could pave the way for the mass rollout of permanent facial recognition surveillance across the UK. Live facial recognition technology turns us into walking barcodes and makes us a nation of suspects. This network of facial recognition cameras will make it impossible for Cardiff residents and visitors to opt-out of a biometric police identity check.

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