- spacegoat@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
Funny how corporations and the government have us in a panopticon of virtual trackers, but only the flock cameras get pushback. Maybe it’s easier for people to comprehend and fight against because it’s a physical object.
Some states have had these for years, with zero complaints. I know at least my home state had tracking by license plate and facial identification 10+ years ago.
(I do not support Flock, but I wish people cared this much about all privacy violations.)
- NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish22 hours
How about the little black box we all carry around with us everywhere we go.
I want an opensource phone so bad.
- deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 days
Much like health insurance CEOs getting waxed, destroying flock cameras seems to be one thing almost everyone agrees on.
3 daysThis article reminded me to check deflock.me where I found that in the last 90 days my city finally got a Flock camera. There’s only one but I’ve been driving by the damn thing every day on my way to work without realizing it.
I’d like to know whose responsible for it; City, County, or State but regardless I now have a decision to make.
- ItsNotImportant24@lemmy.mlEnglish3 days
Thanks for this link, wasn’t aware of it. I am now aware that my city and the surrounding cities are fucking flooded with them all over. 😐
- partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish3 days
Get ‘em while they’re hot!
One day, these things are going to be novelty items with a pretty neat history about how surveillance capitalism and Americans efforts to fight back. Having one, by that point, will be pretty awesome.
- Malyca@lemmy.zipEnglish3 days
I’ve heard sometimes they just put up the cameras and ask for permission from the city after.
- losthalo@sopuli.xyzEnglish2 days
Gee, just like companies putting murderbots… er, “autonomous cars” on the streets without any permitting to see what they could get away with - and suffered no consequences.
- arc99@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
If hypothetically you’re going to destroy a camera, consider the determination of police to investigate and the criminal charges before choosing your method. Spraying them with varnish is a lot more low key than shooting at or burning them, both of which are likely to attract investigations and felony charges.
and whatever you do, don’t cut them down with battery operated recipricating saws, then smash the casings and steal the batteries and solar panels.
- 3 days
Let us remember ALPRs have been around fora while now, and the fervor we’re building to dismantle Flock we need to quietly extend to all ALPR services actively feeding unwarranted surveillance data to law enforcement and federal paramilitaries.
- NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish3 days
The next stage of this is going to be models of Flock cameras that look like other common security cameras, or a Flock module that plugs into existing security cameras and adds them to the network.
- 3 days
Aren’t flock camera more than just cameras as they scan for Bluetooth / wifi devices
- village604@adultswim.fanEnglish3 days
I mean, plenty of security cameras have WiFi capabilities. Adding bluetooth wouldn’t be a very big lift. It definitely wouldn’t be big enough to prevent a smaller form factor.
- NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish3 days
Sure, but there’s no reason they couldn’t be built into an enclosure that looks like other security cameras.
Alternatively, you just build a little box that has that extra stuff and plugs into a normal security camera, and you bury the box in the ground or put it inside a locked utility cabinet or something.
- Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 days
The next stage of this is having cops patrol flock cameras.
The whole ‘mass surveillance’ thing sort of does away with a need for traditional patrols.
- NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish3 days
How long do you figure before they get the Flock AI declared a police officer, therefore any damage to an AI-enabled device counts as assaulting an officer?
- volore@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish2 days
Please don’t give them ideas. Fido’s one thing, but at least that’s a sentient being that can feel pain. Officer Clanker, I hope to god, Satan, the FSM, Jibbers Crabst and whatever other deity may listen, is many many decades away.
If they start declaring inanimate fucking objects or robots to be police officers, all it will mean is that the penalty for vandalism and cop killing is the same… so you might as well earn it.
Clearly professional operatives paid by China to ensure America falls behind in unwanted surveillance technology 🤔. /s
- OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
If only people would be this militant about the sensor node they carry around all the time.
- meco03211@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
That sensor node comes with lots of direct benefits for the person carrying it. Flock cameras have literally zero direct benefits.
