• WesternInfidels@feddit.online
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    4 hours ago

    The company has partnered with 6,000 law enforcement agencies and 1,000 private customers, leading to terrifying false arrests and even crooked cops stalking innocent women.

    How can we make people see that these problems were happening before anyone had heard of Flock? Flock is just amplifying the worst things about American policing.

    Flock isn’t even the first system of surveillance cameras and ALPR cameras, they’re just the first with national-scale panopticon ambitions.

    • lemmyout@lemmy.zip
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      2 hours ago

      There is this recurring theme of comments I keep seeing. “If you think this is bad, well it’s nothing new, you should know what’s been going on the whole time!”.

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        2 hours ago

        I see it more as “This is a symptom of greater problems, we need to attack the root cause and not just react to the surface level stuff that’s most obvious”

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      5 hours ago

      Worse, Big Brother is regulated. Totally legal for citizens to invade the privacy of the general public and then sell it to the govt.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        Yeah, flock is just another head in the fascist hydra.

        This company failing will have no impact whatsoever on the expansion of the surveillance state, or fascisms implementation of totalitarianism.

  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Help! I’ve shot myself in the face on purpose! How can I reassure investors that I am still a capable CEO!?