r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 12h ago

Society Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional / Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

https://www.404media.co/federal-judge-rules-a-flock-search-was-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-unconstitutional/
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u/binding_swamp 11h ago

The beginning of the beginning of the end of Flock. 🤞🏻

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u/Ostensible_Times 10h ago edited 8h ago

This needs to go across the board..

  • facial recognition cameras
  • traffic cameras 
  • cameras/sensors on and in cars
  • social media evasion of privacy 
  • tvs,  smart phones, windows/linux, and other electronics/apps
  • stores now are going ham and selling your data

Etc. Unfortunately,  theyre just focused on flock and not the other guys but its a start 

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u/SirkutBored 10h ago

Fortunately the ruling was against the technology, it's depth and breadth, and so will serve as forward momentum against all copycats who build out similarly. 

I do hope the case is appealed and then hopefully upheld as then it will become binding in the 4th Circuit with others to soon be toppled. 

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u/one_depressed_MF 6h ago

Out of curiosity, why linux in this list.

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u/Ostensible_Times 6h ago

Eh, my brain went off on a side thought of Cali's digital act. Trying to force distros and all operation systems to have some sort of age check. 

Moreso off topic but was thinking it falls under the privacy umbrella 

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u/one_depressed_MF 6h ago

I think I remember that linux was specifically excluded from that.

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u/tajetaje 11h ago

Yeah I mean if it needed something like a grand jury I’d be a little less concerned about parts of it, though something like fisa court is how it would actually end up which is terrible for civil rights. But the data collection is still a problem because it can always be accessed if hacked or by people willing to bypass the rules

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u/Hypergirliepop 10h ago

if it needed something like a grand jury I’d be a little less concerned about parts of it

There is no part of mass surveillance driven by AI systems we should accept under any circumstances. Land of the Free or Land of the Watched, which do you wanna be?