Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time
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Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time
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?
404 Media (www.404media.co)
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Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time
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?
404 Media (www.404media.co)
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.
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Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time
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?
404 Media (www.404media.co)
@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?
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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.
@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?
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@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?
@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?"
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@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?
@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. -
@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?"
@xgranade @inthehands and "what will this thing that I intend for good be used for when the bad guys get hold of it?"
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@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?"
@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.
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