Flock Safety privacy changes cut data retention from 30 days to seven and make search audits compulsory, after dozens of police abuse cases.
Flock and privacy? Not two words i would put together.
Of course they’ll only keep the data 7 days now. Just like they were really only keeping it for 30 days before. They’ve shown how trustworthy they are.
There’s 0 chance of that actually happening.
I’m sure this will only be the default in demos
Not enough. Take them down permanently and block whatever shitass replacement they’re going to try to put up that doesn’t draw as much attention.
Unless you buy the premium subscription, I assume.
Make it 0 seconds and we still don’t have a deal.
Cut the poles down.
I find it fascinating that in today’s world, private companies are allowed to decide how long they want to keep the entire populace under surveillance, just like that, without any laws or any judge involved, without the entire thing instantly turning into a giant scandal or people rioting in the street over it.
As a gen-Xer who has known a world where privacy actually meant something people deeply cared about, the world we live in today is frighteningly dystopian.
Fuck you, I don’t want to live in a private panopticon, you don’t have the right to make us
private panopticon
That’s the only thing George Orwell got wrong: he envisioned surveillance conducted by the state - i.e. a communist dictatorship, but what we end up with today is surveillance conducted by late-stage capitalist monopolies in cahoots with the state - i.e. a fascist dictatorship.
Either way, it’s a dictatorship.
It’s almost like the demonization of the economic theory that kept men from gaining power arbitrarily though riches had nothing to do with the universal evil that is authoritarianism and that it was all a ruse to allow the most sinister men to rise to power through whatever subterfuge they could muster 🤔
Yah they’re lying. Why should we believe the seven day figure? Oh yeah, we shouldn’t.
Didnt benn jordan literally find out some of the cameras still have video of when they were in the factory?
Def longer than 30 days, let alone 7.
Believe or don’t believe, it’s unacceptable. Flockerjacks=heros.
Gee, I feel so much better now…
Data should not be sold or used outside its 1 purpose. It should not be available to the original company at all to look at or have access to. Accessing data should only be allowed through court issued warrants and only on the devices in the proximity and time of the incident. As someone who is an admin to systems that deal with patient data information I can tell you without a doubt we dont even have access to this data, just the setup of everything else around it. It also has a full audit log of everyone who even views the data. This isnt anything new, they just decided to change the rules to see how far they can get away with doing whatever they want for personal gain.
You can ringfence it all you like and keep your MBAs entertained working out separation of responsibilities. But anyone with root can bypass any audit log. And someone always has root.
Despite its many flaws, the US needs GDPR-like regulations.
Lol right.