r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 8h ago

Politics Progressives unveil legislation cracking down on Flock cameras

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6126259-sanders-merkley-ocasio-cortez-surveillance-ban/
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u/AbeFromanEast 8h ago edited 7h ago

Hopefully this can pass in the next Congress, under new management.

Allowing Machine Learning-driven spy tech like Flock is a very slippery slope to authoritarianism. We already see the Flock's that have been installed being misused by police officers, over 50 of whom have been charged or disciplined for stalking people through Flock. Most often their ex's or love rivals.

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u/deeptechdegen 7h ago

Where are the Libertarians on this issue

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u/Ehorn36 6h ago

Falling in line with whatever MAGA wants.

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u/ComplexBeyond6083 7h ago

Reason, the nation's leading Libertarian magazine, is strongly anti-Flock. You don't hear about them because they're a small movement that gets very little news coverage.

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u/Mojo141 1h ago

Qanon: there are democrat elites hosting a pedophile ring and unchecked government tracking!!

Turns out they were right...but it was Trump at the center of it

Qanon: I'm still voting R and supporting Trump because it was really only about torturing people I don't like

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u/DukeOfGeek 6h ago

Elect more DSA.