• Sundray@lemmus.org
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    13 minutes ago

    Clearly professional operatives paid by China to ensure America falls behind in unwanted surveillance technology 🤔. /s

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    5 hours ago

    This article reminded me to check deflock.me where I found that in the last 90 days my city finally got a Flock camera. There’s only one but I’ve been driving by the damn thing every day on my way to work without realizing it.

    I’d like to know whose responsible for it; City, County, or State but regardless I now have a decision to make.

    • Malyca@lemmy.zip
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      2 hours ago

      I’ve heard sometimes they just put up the cameras and ask for permission from the city after.

    • ItsNotImportant24@lemmy.ml
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      4 hours ago

      Thanks for this link, wasn’t aware of it. I am now aware that my city and the surrounding cities are fucking flooded with them all over. 😐

      • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
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        2 hours ago

        Get ‘em while they’re hot!

        One day, these things are going to be novelty items with a pretty neat history about surveillance capitalism and Americans efforts to fight back. Having one, by that point, will be pretty awesome.

  • deranger@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    Much like health insurance CEOs getting waxed, destroying flock cameras seems to be one thing almost everyone agrees on.

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    5 hours ago

    The next stage of this is going to be models of Flock cameras that look like other common security cameras, or a Flock module that plugs into existing security cameras and adds them to the network.

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      3 hours ago

      The next stage of this is having cops patrol flock cameras.

      The whole ‘mass surveillance’ thing sort of does away with a need for traditional patrols.

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        3 hours ago

        How long do you figure before they get the Flock AI declared a police officer, therefore any damage to an AI-enabled device counts as assaulting an officer?

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        3 hours ago

        Sure, but there’s no reason they couldn’t be built into an enclosure that looks like other security cameras.

        Alternatively, you just build a little box that has that extra stuff and plugs into a normal security camera, and you bury the box in the ground or put it inside a locked utility cabinet or something.

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      2 hours ago

      That sensor node comes with lots of direct benefits for the person carrying it. Flock cameras have literally zero direct benefits.