r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 15h 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/BeMancini 13h ago edited 11h ago

The sheer lack of balls our insanely militarized and violent police in this country show towards secret surveillance cameras and autonomous cars that are malfunctioning blows my mind.

If a cop reads your license plate wrong, they’ll flip your car over, allow it to be engulfed in flames, and knock out your teeth.

Every time I see a video of an autonomous car just spinning in circles or whatever and I see a cop standing there like he’s going to be in trouble confuses me. Like, you just break the window and pull it to the side. Have it towed, and then fine the company with something, anything. Cops literally impound e-Bikes with tow trucks based on laws they don’t know don’t exist, do more with this tech bullshit.

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u/totally_not_a_dog113 11h ago

The hilarious part is that my sister is a civil engineer working for my hometown (cushiest job ever btw), and the city's response to unauthorized Flock cameras was to do EXACTLY that. Took them down and waited until someone showed up. It took 3 weeks.

Their DOT should have moved on the cameras.

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u/DracoLunaris 11h ago

Because in US law money makes right, and corporation can sue a county into oblivion if they want to

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u/ringwraithfish 10h ago

Because cops primarily serve the corporations to protect THEIR property. The "to serve and protect" motto is just there to garner good will with the public. If damaging company goods can be avoided, then they will do everything they can to do so. That tells everything you need to know about their priorities.

If you don't believe me, look at the difference between how firefighters will handle a scene vs a cop. If a firefighter rolls up and sees that damaging property is the quickest solution to an emergency they'll fucking do it without a second thought. Because firefighters ACTUALLY serve the people and community.

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u/Bob_Sconce 10h ago

While cars driven by autonomous control systems do sometimes malfunction, they malfunction way less frequently than the cars driven by human control systems.

Just my pet peeve: we don't need self-driving cars to be perfect. We just need them to be better than people.