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[–] 46 points 2 months ago (1 child)

He's using it for what it was designed for. He could be a spokesperson for the company.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I find the funniest part about this case is that flock has detailed logs on everything he did. Who could have guessed that the company dedicated to spying on everyone without a warrant would also be spying on the cops using the service? You wanna take bets on whether or not his usage was used to train an AI?

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    And yet they let him do it 717 times without reporting it. Company working as intended I guess.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Just because something is logged, doesnt mean its monitored like that.

    Even without monitoring though when something does trigger someone to look, you now have a record.

    They absolutely should have been monitoring for things like this though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I think it's a failure to monitor. But there's no monetary incentive to do that, so it won't happen without regulation, and the US doesn't have that political climate right now.

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

    Bear in mind that we only hear about the most egregious and / or dumbest cases like these. Like with all crimes.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    I think vigilantism may achieve what legislators never will, because the public anger around Flock cameras is substantial.

    That said, the most likely scenario in the US is that serious regulation of this tech won't materialize until a cop deletes their entire family that was hiding out after having obtained a restraining order.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I'm not American and I see stuff about flock cameras everywhere. Can you ELI5 what are they about? Are they a speed camera registry that saves the video to a centralized database?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    They track cars, humans, literally everything. Society is one massive database. And the cops are basically given free reign to do whatever they want with that. That could include stalking people they don't like or their exes. In one case a dude got in his car drove for hours to get some legal weed in another state drove all the way home and they showed up to arrest him.

    We're headed into a massively dystopian surveillance state where the government and major corporations will be able to monitor, plot, and plan for virtually everything that we do.

    Edit: Downvoter: I normally don't care about your type because fuck random internet people, but why do you want a surveillance state? Boggles my fucking mind.

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

    They are ALPRs (automatic license plate readers) which have a shared database around the country. Police from cities which have a contract with flock are able to search this database which is across the whole country.

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