I'm more curious to see if they're working with Palantir than Flock. There's already a lot of push back against Flock, and some places actively working to ban it. Palantir isn't in the spotlight as much, and without a doubt much worse.

Does facial recognition even work on animals? I seriously doubt it.

This happens every time there is blow back on something like this.

They will reverse course and slow walk it a bit every 3 or 4 months and we will be back here in a years time.

Someone's bonus depends on this deal at Amazon, they are still going into work tomorrow and they still want that bonus.

It feels like the cat’s out of the bag and they will just go ahead with whatever they planned on doing with this partnership, but not be as open about it. Bury it somewhere in the user agreement.

again ?

Absolutely not because of privacy concerns. But definitely not about a resources or time issue. This is them responding to the negative backlash without acknowledging their tone deaf Superbowl ad. If there was time or resource issue they wouldn't have dropped tens of millions of dollars bragging about it.

They can’t say that out loud of course. They do the same thing.

But it’s obviously to mitigate the current shitstorm

They are all over the place with their communication. I checked specifically when they first announced this partnership. And it turned out that when you share your videos with public safety, it was also being shared to Flock. And only the specific videos you choose to share. So I thought it was a big nothing before all this — just don't share videos with public safety. I never have and never will.

But to walk their cooperation back must mean they got significant complaints and need to do some PR. Or they tried some shit that wasn't spelled out in their privacy statement.

Just gotta hit the normies

You would be surprised at how many people are idiots.

Me as well, I’ll never get it.