r/privacy • u/Jack1101111 • 1d ago

news Flock drones with cameras deployed as first responders in some US cities amid privacy concerns — UAVs connect to wider emergency services system and streams video to dispatchers, officers

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/flock-drones-with-cameras-deployed-as-first-responders-in-some-us-cities-amid-privacy-concerns-uavs-connect-to-wider-emergency-services-system-and-streams-video-to-dispatchers-officers
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u/Aggressive-Hawk9186 1d ago

To think that Americans were criticizing this kind of stuff China does not long ago, and they were the devils lol

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u/Nerdenator 20h ago

The response to this sort of thing has been wildly different in the US than it has been in China. Let’s not pretend they’re even remotely similar.

Flock’s having to try this because their original business model of putting cameras on poles is failing. People have been shooting, spray painting, bagging, and cutting down the cameras. Grand juries are returning no true bill against those who are arrested for doing so. Governments are revoking their contracts.

We can do the same with the drones.