Flock Surveillance company is expanding
Flock Surveillance company is expanding
I recently discovered a company called Flock which apparently is building a massive surveillance network. I came across a reddit post on r/sysadmin where an admin received a request to install a black box device so that law enforcement could access cameras.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-to-pump-the-brakes-on-your-police-departments-use-of-flocks-mass-surveillance-license-plate-readers (disclaimer: I don't support the political views of ACLU)
The.. political views? As in, where they decided to stop defending Nazis?
What are you dolts arguing about the ACLU comment instead of discussing the actual post?
Because in a way, everything is political, to someone, whether you like it or not. Even mentioning the ACLU could imply there is some agenda behind what OP is doing.
Toxic.
They are fairly far left. I think freedom and privacy shouldn't he political. That is why I felt the need to leave a disclaimer as there are some political statements in the page.
Do you mean that you don't like the way they prefer to defend individuals against corporations rather than the other way around, or the way they don't help people defend themselves against lawful and reasonable government action?
Everything is political. Unfortunately. BUT I am for ANY org that is in favor of individual rights and freedoms. Haven't looked at the ACLU in a while tho tbf
If you consider the ACLU to be 'far left' I don't think I want you at my kickbacks tbh
everything is political.
this company pushing invasive surveillance tech upon underserved-and-overpoliced communities like mine is political.
\ our "representatives" accepting invasive surveillance technology is political.
\ our "representatives" requesting more invasive surveillance technology is political.
\ "law enforcement" having (real-time) access to all of these invasive surveillance tech like LPRs & cameras is political.
\ the core purpose of the police is political.
Also, the political cannot be seperated from the economic.
the
bourgeoiscapitalistcorporate media outlets push narratives that spread fear because it draws attention... more eyes/ears means that they can sell commercial time/spots at a higher rate to advertisers.\ so, these outlets generate revenue by scaring the shit out of their audience.
our ostensible "representatives" run on & fundraise off of these manufactured narratives.
the police officer associations use this fear to lobby our "representatives" for greater resources (i.e., an increased share of the municipal budget (i.e, less money for everything else) shiny, new toys, more officers, etc.).
the companies supplying invasive surveillance tech make money through sales and/or (future) contracts.
it's all political, and the political is connected to the economic.
Saying it won't help on Lemmy. When its users see anything related to politics, they will fight. Just ignore it.