The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley.

“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Interesting that he’s framing it as a balance between privacy and safety instead of privacy and security.

    Flock cameras haven’t been proven to make anyone safer.

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      If anything they actively make people unsafe by falsely flagging drivers with a partial tag match for a stolen vehicle

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        2 months ago

        Don’t forget all the stalking by many various people abusing the database and live feeds

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    2 months ago

    And the zombies said “all we want to do is eat your brains, maybe we can compromise…”

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    Compromise offer: you stop spying on us and we’ll stop breaking your cameras.

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    I think the window of compromise has long since passed. Flock as a company went in with a guns blazing, anti-privacy, record everything, give the information to anyone style business style, and then chose to double and triple down on the style when the controversy/outcry first started. Once you’ve hit the stage where there’s people starting to protest and riot and cities have started to go out of their way to ban the product and retract contracts due to the fact that they’re concerned about public support. It’s too late. That’s a fire that’s not being put out.

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      Yup, violent crime has been dropping for decades and not an insignificant drop. We did not need mass surveillance, we did not want mass surveillance, nor do we want it now.

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    I can guarantee this has been said already, but the compromise is simple; no flock cameras (or comparable tech) anywhere.

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      Corporate CEOs can all have 1 camera each, on their front lawn, for them to hang from.

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    2 months ago

    Fuck off with compromise. take your shit and get out no one wants you in case the guillotine wasn’t fucking clear

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    *We didn’t invent police abuse! We actually shined a light on it and pointed it out"

    Fuck right the hell off with this shit. You don’t get to sell your panopticon to a group that routinely abuses every tool they have, and feign ignorance in defense of the results.

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    Hey won’t be gullitined and instead he will just face prison time and have his mass survelence system dismantled and the rest of his assets seized and redistributed

    A fair and just compromise imho