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City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway

Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/8809c916-d4b2-429a-a978-12bf6cea8b45/flock-automating-the-police-state-panopticon-one-highly-sensitive-location-at-a-timeRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 07:35:56 GMTThu, 30 Apr 2026 18:50:56 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:14:39 GMT]]>@xgranade @inthehands This is the problem with remotely disabling tractors stolen from Ukraine by the Russians. It's not unwelcome under those exact circumstances, but it's a TERRIBLE idea to allow a company to shut down agricultural equipment like this in general.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/DamonWakes/statuses/116495252179619068https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/DamonWakes/statuses/116495252179619068Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:14:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:07:00 GMT]]>@xgranade @inthehands and "what will this thing that I intend for good be used for when the bad guys get hold of it?"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116495222080191292https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116495222080191292Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:07:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:06:19 GMT]]>@xgranade
I don’t think it’s advertising specifically that is a red line. I take the point of the article to be that its presence in advertising is an indicator of careless treatment of data in general. A lot of people struggle to understand that capabilities •will• be abused; they need a concrete example, concrete evidence of specific abuse in each specific case.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/inthehands/statuses/116495219362067320https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/inthehands/statuses/116495219362067320Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:06:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:05:14 GMT]]>@inthehands Like, I am begging fellow progressives to not think about technology in terms of "this company did a bad thing" but in terms of "what power structures are we building, and what will companies do with them once we build them?"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/xgranade/statuses/116495215105711924https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/xgranade/statuses/116495215105711924Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:05:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:03:29 GMT]]>@inthehands It's just so on point that a lot of people seem to be furious that Flock used the footage in advertising and *not* that there's cameras watching kids doing gymnastics in the first place.

Like, what Flock did is abhorrent, so why build and install machines that enable that behavior?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/xgranade/statuses/116495208222569443https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/xgranade/statuses/116495208222569443Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:03:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:56:22 GMT]]>@inthehands living in a part of the US where there is only a single flock/ALPR camera within an hour and a half of me (and it’s a highway toll booth), whatever the rest of the country is doing is befuddling.

Dudes, what if I told you that you can just … not?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discuss.systems/users/steve/statuses/116495180273494693https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discuss.systems/users/steve/statuses/116495180273494693Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:56:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:53:21 GMT]]>FACT CHECK

The previous post is a lie: they are not, in fact, doing it just one location at a time. They’re doing whole massive batches of locations at once.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/inthehands/statuses/116495168396992689https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/inthehands/statuses/116495168396992689Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:53:21 GMT