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Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 24 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Sadly some people do want flock cameras because they think it's worth it to have a better chance of catching criminals even if our personal liberties get taken away. It's the age old freedom vs safety discussion.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe a year or so ago, but now those same people are starting to understand the definition of criminal is flexible.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    I agree that the more popular opinion is changing to more freedom, but most of the older millennials and above that I talk to care more about catching criminals because they are more likely to be influenced by Facebook/Nextdoor posts and the mainstream media.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The thing is though you could have both, at least to a degree. You could have much more transparent policing, the cameras could do processing purely locally and based on publicly accessible lists with listed reasons for why the given plates are captured, you could make it so that the only ones who do get the data are actually thr police and not thr company selling the cameras, etc.

    But that's not in the interest of Flock, or even really the powers that be. The surveillance machine needs feeding, doesn't matter for what cost.

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