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Does he care to explain why they leave town when cities or states simply tell them that all the data they collect becomes public domain?
Oh, so they aren't providing a public service, the only thing they care about is selling my data and keeping it secret.
Can someone explain how this makes any sense? They were ordered legally to deactivate and remove, unilaterally decide to put them back up and reactivate, the authorities (whomever those are) resort to covering them instead of removing and destroying them because "removing them is illegal"?
What the actual fuck is this?
exhibit of a word without meaning
good, terrifying CEOs is the right thing to do.
Deflock kind of implied by existing in the first place that they thought Flock was a terrorist organization
This guy is LITERALLY AL QUEDA ISIS and THE DEVIL.
Boost this signal! Actual Satan!!
We can all just say crazy shit. Fucking asshole. Choke.
I think FLOCK is a terrorist organizaion
Yeah anything or anyone that starves the greed disease is a terrorist. Shame that greed is only terminal for the victims of it and not the carriers
DeFlock is just a front end for OSM, does that make OSM a "terrorist organization" too?
I used deflock to look for cameras around me; I CANNOT leave my city limits by car without passing by a Flock camera.
Same for me. In addition to deflock.me and haveibeenflocked.com, are there any community resource sites for finding others in the same city that would be willing to start pushing on the city to cancel their contract?
My city is one of the few in my county that doesn't have a contract with flock, but the county was nice enough to put them up around town anyway.
Is there a resource to find out who has contracts with Flock?
I'd be interested to know, the reason I know my city doesn't have it is a bunch of residents pushed for it at multiple council meetings.
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.
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.
I thought their CEO was a 15 year old boy.
Wonder if their CEO finally stopped responding to hacker news threads or if he's still in there getting dunked on.
Since Flock CEO wants to give this movement some press
Here's Benn Jordan, he's done a series of videos on the cameras, demonstrates their vulnerabilities, and talks about how Flock has been deploying secretly by co-opting local municipalities to subsidize their national rollout.
First video, the one seems to have started the major anti-Flock push: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
Follow-up showing how easy they are to hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY
More live demonstrated vulnerabilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo
Not as directly related, but he discusses a way to use generative AI models to create noise masks for your specific plate that will disrupt the OCR process that ALPRs use. (Key term: Adversarial Noise) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk
This guy is the coolest type of hacker.
Funny because I consider Flock a terrorist organization
"Anything/anyone that cuts into my profits are terrorists."
Notice how a lot of these servailence CEO often come across as quite skittish and oddly concerned about what other are doing while obvuscating their own actions, kind of reminds me of a someone I used to know with diegnosed parinoid...
Just sayin...
"Everything I don't like is terrorism."
What is this, 2001 again?
Did it ever stop?
It's accelerated: In 2001, technology companies were forced to collect user data and realized it could be a goldmine. Today, technology companies are being forced to collect people's IDs... I'm sure this will end up just fine.
Spoken like an antifa, uh, 3 star general. Get him boys! /s The future is a lot dumber than we might have thought.
Hey, man. I am four stars at least.
Funny, I've been calling Flock the same thing.
He can go fuck himself.
Flock is a terrorist organization.
Flock is a state sponsored terrorist organization.
The word 'terrorist' has lost all meaning at this point.
I had to double-check what Deflock was for:
DeFlock's mission is simple: to shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.
This app makes it easy to view and report AI powered surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and other surveillance infrastructure near you.
Sharing information about where cameras are located is terrorism now?
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Careful! I think logic and questions are the new terrorist things to do! Oooo scarey!
It means 'Enemy of the rich' now
e: important clarification, by rich I mean billionaires who own the majority of everything and not successful doctors, engineers or movie stars. Know your classes, kids
It never had any meaning. Reagan had them redefine it in a way that didn’t implicate America.
That's partly the point. Use words that accurately describe your evil group to incorrectly describe other groups and all of a sudden the words lose meaning and nobody can call you that anymore. Hooray!
Fuck these bootlickers
I would like to kindly invite this person to lodge their head in a deeply recessed part of their own anatomy.
