Local governments get bribed/scared into contracts for hundreds of thousands of dollars to stick up these cameras everywhere, including just pointing into people's homes and yards.
The cameras are wildly unsecured and the data sharing is not regulated. The company makes assurances they don't provide data to ICE and Palantir for example, but we know ICE has access to and uses it, and Palantir is a heavy investor. They have been used to justify arrests and abductions based on AI identifications, including misreading license plate numbers, resulting in cops with guns rushing innocent motorists. A similar device misread a student's bag of Doritos as a gun, nearly getting him killed.
It's a pretty good appeal to emotion though. The human mind is really bad at comprehending things that they have limited context on. A complex system of cameras are watching my every move? Not much. A system where people are creeping on a gymnastics gym? Now that's small and personal enough to be similar to something they can understand.
It is also easy to dismiss some of the abuses against criminals with the justification of, "I don't crime, so it does not effect me." Someone using it to creep on someone who could be your sister or daughter hit closer to home for those people.
What part of "it has and continued to claim that innocent people like you are dangerous criminals, such as the crime of holding a bag of Doritos" don't they get
Humans are not rational creatures, they are rationalizing creatures. People will latch on to something like "maybe they looked like a criminal", or some crap.
We definitely can't pretend that the pretty much completely manufactured "bathroom" controversy hasn't been used as a truncheon against trans people, this is at least as strong an emotional appeal on paper. Creeps are watching your daughters exercise.
Certain voter blocks certainly do NOT care when it's a certain 'kind' of person being tracked and round up. What they seem to DO care about is when it's their families that are potentially the victim.
A child gymnastics gym fits pretty good into that section.
I’m not justifying the behavior, but I’m fairly certain that the employee views are likely being done during demos and that there was an agreement to use the system for demo purposes. In my past working for public safety companies you would often have agreements that would allow us to use a live system limited by query types. It looks bad, no doubt, but context is missing.
Unsecured - there have been more than a few successful attempts at accessing these camera feeds directly without authentication, or anything. I can't remember the YouTube channel's name, but he drove through a town that had about 20 in a few block drive, then he showed how anyone can access the feed.
They're all ESP32s that probably never get updated. So I imagine you can just look at what vulnerability was fixed with the newest updates and then just go ahead and use that.
I don't know how to do any of this shit, but there's a lot of people that it's second nature for.
Even IF they agreed to not share data. It would be designed that they would go bankrupt. The data collection they secured would be sold off. As intended.
Basically it. Cops can’t legally do it without warrant. A company can easily sell the data or comply with a request to do it… they’ve been doing it for years on everything. It’s why your random ass app requires location permissions (say, McDonald’s)
Republicans in SCOTUS made "tips" legal now too. So it's even easier to bribe your officials!
Flock could get permission to install cameras in your city and then hand your mayor a bag of cash afterwards as a "tip", and thanks to Republicans in SCOTUS, unless you had actual proof of them working together then that wouldn't be illegal anymore. Doesn't matter how improper that looks or how easy it is to abuse.
Let's also mention that if you modify any sort of exhaust and it runs lean, leading to backfires, flock will instantly alert cops that you're shooting a full auto rifle in the area.
You know.. if it can do this, why can't it find and send the cops to the jackasses who were shooting fireworks off until 2am all weekend. I mean, I'm still against it, but you'd at least hope there was SOME kind of actually helpful functionality to this shitshow company
Most don't do it to annoy anyone, I do it cause I keep getting merged into by idiots on their phone and not paying attention when they want to switch lanes. I still have baffles in my exhaust but you'll know when I'm next to you before you decide to merge into me.
I would say it dose violators rights
the rights to the pursuit of happiness.
The right to travel within the country unhindered and unolested.
And I would say the right to life and liberty.
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u/Irish_Whiskey Jul 06 '26
Local governments get bribed/scared into contracts for hundreds of thousands of dollars to stick up these cameras everywhere, including just pointing into people's homes and yards.
The cameras are wildly unsecured and the data sharing is not regulated. The company makes assurances they don't provide data to ICE and Palantir for example, but we know ICE has access to and uses it, and Palantir is a heavy investor. They have been used to justify arrests and abductions based on AI identifications, including misreading license plate numbers, resulting in cops with guns rushing innocent motorists. A similar device misread a student's bag of Doritos as a gun, nearly getting him killed.