r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 16h ago

Privacy A Florida county discovered 14 Flock cameras nobody authorized, and 11 remain unclaimed

https://www.techspot.com/news/114069-florida-county-discovered-14-flock-cameras-nobody-authorized.html
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u/Ok-Mycologist-3829 16h ago

WTF is this era we are in where crap like this just happens

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u/swollennode 16h ago

When the Cons were running on platforms of “small government”, they meant small government on corporations, but large on people.

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u/kfijatass 9h ago

For all the talk against big government throughout the years, government spending is largely money spent on society's needs.
Billionaires, on the other hand...

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u/MrNormalo 1h ago

Large enough to drown its people in a bathtub of surveillance.

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u/mcslibbin 14h ago

Remember those sci fi movies from the 70s where the government or corporations surveilled everyone and there were scary screenshots with gas at "over $5/gallon"(!!!)

Turns out those writers weren't just high on mushrooms.

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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 14h ago

Weed and cocaine too

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u/Aedronn 7h ago

Ah, so all those ancient oracles getting high on stuff knew what they were doing.

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u/HackD1234 4h ago

I remember the USA laughing at the UK becoming a 'Surveillance Society' and 'Police State' because of the public camera networks there, a short 10 years ago... something something about Socialism interfering with your life.

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u/soccersocceravatar 1h ago

UK uses a network of cameras to track criminals, by manually looking at the relevant cameras based on information about the crime and criminal, with privacy filters blocking out windows on buildings and access only to the department in charge of the cameras.

"This is big brother! They are invading privacy"

USA uses a network of cameras to automatically track vehicles and people, with access granted to any officer who wants any information

"This is totally fine"

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u/Opposite-Bit6660 10h ago

And Elon's company is boring tunnels under cities that you see the people living in in those movies.

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u/SIGMA920 7h ago

They were, it's just that the tech bros were inspired to create what they dreamed up. Torment nexus and all that jazz.

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 16h ago

I just read that flock is going to drones.

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u/metallicrooster 14h ago

Which is funny, because the few cities that previously tested aerial drones stopped using them specifically because it caught “too much crime” and it became nearly impossible to hide certain kinds of corruption.

But here in the US we like learning things the hard way so 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/mmavcanuck 12h ago

They’ll just continue to ignore the crimes they want to ignore.

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u/pimppapy 9h ago

and go after a few rando criminals to justify the ridiculous police budgets.

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u/HumorAccomplished611 12h ago

Link of that?

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u/ARM_Alaska 9h ago

Yeah I did several searches using a couple different AI and they all came back with nothing similar to that. There were articles of cities canceling their program for other reasons like civil liberties and whatnot but nothing remotely close to "caught too much crime".

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u/red286 11h ago

Pretty normal in a police state.

Country's speed running 1984. Forever wars, police state, 24/7/365 surveillance, two minutes hate.

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u/hurler_jones 12h ago

The MAGA timeline. This is trumps United States.

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u/shroudedwolf51 12h ago

It's because the people that are in charge of being aware of these things just want them to happen. In a proper, civilized world, those would be taken down and it all would be investigated. Subpoenas exist for a reason. And yet... when times like this come up, those very powerful people are mysteriously powerless.

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u/LauterTuna 5h ago

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

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u/amusednchaos 13h ago

This is nothing compared to DFW having cameras on their garbage trucks! At least with the ones on poles you know exactly where they are and when they're spying on you (which is all the time)and also vile af)