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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Flock Claims It’s The First Company To Expose Police Misuse Of Surveillance Tech

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Flock Claims It’s The First Company To Expose Police Misuse Of Surveillance Tech

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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Flock Safety is hurting. It spent the early part of its career pitching plate reader tech to people who honestly didn’t need it: HOA supervisors and gated communities. Then it realized there …
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    “Company first to prove their target market demographic not suitable for their product.”

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    Marketing meeting: “How can we turn the horrible publicity about our company into a sales opportunity?”

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    At this point, Flock is synonymous with stalkerware, which would already be concerning if it weren’t for the fact that people’s taxes are paying for the cameras, as well as the cops who believe anything this powerful should be abused as often as possible.

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    I totally was the first one to create the video camera. Flock owes me royalties on that!

    See? Anyone can blast metaphorical feces out their mouth.

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    Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead.

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    Don’t forget about the stingrays people! Those are still being used too

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

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    Aaaand, whose surveillance tech allowed for such abuses to persist at a national scale??

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