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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me (www.thedrive.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I do think eventually litigation is going to limit this Flock nonsense, but it'll be after a spectacularly violent event. Some stalker's going to kill a whole family and that'll do it.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    I can't lead an effort to push the local govn't to do something like this. I just don't have the charisma, but I would definitely join the cause. I was a part of a club once to overturn a law in a nearby city. It was interesting to see how it all worked.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Even if not, familiarize yourself with DeFlock. At the very least, hopefully, there's a way you can route yourself when you're getting around that'll deprive them of data.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago

    They're expanding their footprint around me. The city and adjacent city both have contracts and several retailers have them at all entrances. I tried to see if I could add the locations to deflock via street complete but then realized that I can't log the sites when (safely) driving.

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