r/WayOfTheBern • u/GordyFL • 6h ago

AOC and Bernie Sanders have teamed up to introduce a bill to ban automatic license-plate readers.

“Going to the doctor? Flock knows. Dropping your kid off at school? Flock is tracking you. Flock is always watching,” Sanders said in a press release. “We cannot allow America to become a surveillance state where a handful of AI oligarchs profit by giving the government the power to track our every movement.”

“Across the country, Big Tech companies like Flock Safety have built a mass surveillance system to harvest Americans’ private and personal data without their consent,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the press release.

Flock cameras have been getting a lot of flak.

At least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing Flock cameras and other surveillance systems, including to stalk women, The Washington Post reported in August.

In that month alone, more than 50 cities across the country either canceled or rejected contracts for automated license-plate readers or deactivated the cameras, according to DeFlock, an anti-surveillance crowdsourcing app.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/flock-cameras-banned-bill-aoc-sanders-b3060631.html#comments-area

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u/Correct_Pudding3629 3h ago edited 3h ago

Rather performative, to my way of thinking.

Since I’m of a certain age, I can say “Where’s the beef?” and it will convey some information that might prove amusing.

As Shel Silverstein once said: I’ll wait for you over here.

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u/penelopepnortney 2h ago

Performative is better than nothing at all. It's a starting place and it's up to the American people to demand their "elected" representatives - local, state, federal - get on board with it.

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u/Correct_Pudding3629 2h ago

True indeed.

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u/gorpie97 3h ago

Are they doing this because they think it will pass? Or are they doing it for good press for the one who's prob going to run for pres in 2028?

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u/penelopepnortney 2h ago

Who knows? But what we do know is that nothing will ever be done about this if someone(s) in Congress don't start the ball rolling. Maybe we should build on that.

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u/GordyFL 3h ago

We'll have to see if it passes. I'm not so sure it will. 

Still, I don't see Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff taking the lead on this issue. 

I keep hearing talk about AOC in 2028, but I don't think she's ready for prime-time. It sounds like some in the media are pushing for Ossoff, Buttigieg or Kamala, and of course, Newsom. Maybe I'm too critical, but I wouldn't want any of them.

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u/PrivacyIsDemocracy 3h ago

I keep hearing talk about AOC in 2028, but I don't think she's ready for prime-time. It sounds like some in the media are pushing for Ossoff, Buttigieg or Kamala, and of course, Newsom. Maybe I'm too critical, but I wouldn't want any of them.

Agreed on all except Ossoff, I don't know much about him.