The article itself is from August, but after seeing Flock cameras at a local Lowe's store that were missing from the DeFlock map, I thought it'd be worth bringing increased attention to such companies contributing to the propagation of Flock cameras. If there's a Home Depot or Lowe's near you that's not on the DeFlock map already, it might just not have been added yet.

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[–] 27 points 1 year ago

It's almost as if the world would be better off if those Flock cameras with the solar panels and the flashing lights were all vandalized and destroyed...

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'll never shop there again

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I’d been boycotting Home Depot because of their trump support, but Lowe’s was the alternative. There are some tiny little Ace Hardware stores, but they never have what I need and offer to order it with a week or so of lag time. Amazon is faster, but also, fuck Amazon.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It was once an upon a time reasonable to boycott. Now look, as your options dwindle to fascist supporter A, B, or C. That, or a single alternative who can’t actually meet your consumption needs. This is a problem that has gotten worse with time and will continue to get worse so long as nothing is done. Imagine a world where all your options for water are Nestle and similar. We can argue on the specifics, but that’s the general consumer dystopia we’re clearly headed towards. Our way of life has been compromised.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Same re:HD and Lowe's. My nearest Lowe's has three of these cameras in their parking lot. They not only spy on you but they flash their lights and play audio messages at you too. In the fine print of the Lowe's "Pro" membership (it's really a loyalty program and anyone can sign up) they ask you to explicitly agree to Flock surveillance and to agree that you have no rights to/over the data they collect. I avoid Lowe's when I can now - clearly they have no respect for their customers and their prices/selection are no better than elsewhere.

    The deflock site doesn't show any cameras at my closest HD but I don't know if this means that they respect their customers slightly more than Lowe's or if it means the site just hasn't been updated yet. I'll have to make a point of looking the next time I'm up that way. Yeah, there aren't a whole lot of good alternatives to BigBoxHomeStores here either. Sometimes Walmart will have the more commodity stuff, but who wants to spend money at Walmart? At my nearest one, the management has lately been permitting anti-trans signature-gathering, allowing hate groups to set up tables on Walmart property right outside the main entrance where they can accost customers easily. The store is also hiring off-duty city cops to stand around doing nothing. If I want to be watched by cops I can get that anywhere in public - don't need to breathe Walmart air too.

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    The deflock site doesn’t show any cameras at my closest HD but I don’t know if this means that they respect their customers slightly more than Lowe’s or if it means the site just hasn’t been updated yet. I’ll have to make a point of looking the next time I’m up that way.

    Same here. I'd like to think that there don't exist here but I'll bet they do it's just that no one has updated the map.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    My local Lowe's and Home Depot have the only Flock cameras in my county (for now, anyway).

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Someone tell Rossmann.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The Home Depot nearest to where I used to live had cameras in the tools section ... Which is fine, but whenever they noticed a person in view, they would turn on the attached screens and play a tone every ten seconds or so. I guess it was to remind you that you were being surveilled?

    Anyway, I always found them intrusive, annoying and offensive. I'm not surprised they've become part of a larger problem.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, I used to install those a couple years ago as a security tech.

    Unless they are at the register, those screens don't even record back to a central DVR. Just a local SD card inside the screen itself. The only wire running to them is low voltage DC power, no video or network. Those things aren't really an issue in the grand scheme, they are less intrusive than a regular security camera since you can't even view them live at the head end.

    Now the bigger ones hanging from a pole in the ceiling, yes those ARE being centrally recorded.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    The Australian equivalent got into trouble for trying something similar (without the flock integration) recently.
    Kmart too.

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I've been assuming I'm under surveillance each time I drive for decades at this point, starting with red-light cameras. The trend was never going to be toward fewer cameras with everything being sandboxed and tight restrictions on sharing.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I wouldn’t be surprised if all major retailers did the same thing. Target, for example, is a major donor to the police.

    To run a chain with stores across the country and millions in merchandise, you must have gotten used to the taste of boot leather. What’s another little lick?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To run a chain with stores across the country and millions in merchandise, you must have gotten used to the taste of boot leather. What’s another little lick?

    Love your prose

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  • Literally what fox warned about, no one should have this power. And here it is, in the hands of those already with the most

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Let me take this opportunity to say Fuck Lowes. Also while I will shop at home dept in a pinch, support your local hardware stores every chance you get. And in US consider finding an ACE franchise which are usually locally owned and operated. The service at either is a literal shock in difference to the big box store corporate hell scape and price gauging.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

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