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Flock is extremely egregious. https://deflock.me https://deflock.me

vkou 11mo ago
WA state has figured out a solution to the Flock problem. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules-data-captured-flock-safety-cameras-are-public-records https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules... If they are going to be used by the government and law enforcement, they are clearly government-collected data about you - and thus, are subject to (the state equivalent of) a FOIA request. This puts an onerous compliance requirement on Flock and the ciites that allow it to operate. Hopefully, WA's state legislature will decline to give them any exemptions, which will kill that company's operations in the state. --- Among other things, these cameras have been illegally used to spy on people who were getting an abortion in WA. Flock's executives (and the engineers who implemented that feature) belong in prison.
Lammy 11mo ago
Relevant federal payola https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?id=D000116304 https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary... https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyists?cycle=2025&id=D000116304 https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyis...
joe5150 11mo ago
Flock has a series of bizarre, obviously LLM-generated blog posts trying to convince the public that they are working "toward a future where compliance and community trust walk hand in hand".... [1] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-compliance-doesnt-have-to-be-so-hard https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-compliance-doe... [2] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-the-work-already-underway https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-the-work-alrea... [3] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-transparency-control-and-the-path-forward https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-transparency-c...
- alistairSH 11mo ago
  They put off serious “We have always been at war with Eastasia” doublespeak vibes.
  - mschuster91 11mo ago
    Flock's founder is just as dangerous a tech-bro as the company he created [1]: > Langley offers a prediction: In less than 10 years, Flock’s cameras, airborne and fixed, will eradicate almost all crime in the U.S. (He acknowledges that programs to boost youth employment and cut recidivism will help.) It sounds like a pipe dream from another AI-can-solve-everything tech bro, but Langley, in the face of a wave of opposition from privacy advocates and Flock’s archrival, the $2.1 billion (2024 revenue) police tech giant Axon Enterprise, is a true believer. He’s convinced that America can and should be a place where everyone feels safe. And once it’s draped in a vast net of U.S.-made Flock surveillance tech, it will be. This guy literally wants to replicate China's social credit score and ubiquitous surveillance in the US - and instead of shunning him, the company and everyone on their board, payroll and investors like an effort of that scale deserves, police, law-and-order freaks and many municipalities flock to it. Where the fuck is the "don't tread on me" crowd? [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/09/03/ai-startup-flock-thinks-it-can-eliminate-all-crime-in-america/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/09/03/ai-st...
c23gooey 11mo ago
See also the latest Benn Jordan video on youtube [1] 1 - https://youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?si=lu_nCW8A94ziP9YW https://youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?si=lu_nCW8A94ziP9YW

vkou 11mo ago

WA state has figured out a solution to the Flock problem. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules-data-captured-flock-safety-cameras-are-public-records https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules... If they are going to be used by the government and law enforcement, they are clearly government-collected data about you - and thus, are subject to (the state equivalent of) a FOIA request. This puts an onerous compliance requirement on Flock and the ciites that allow it to operate. Hopefully, WA's state legislature will decline to give them any exemptions, which will kill that company's operations in the state. --- Among other things, these cameras have been illegally used to spy on people who were getting an abortion in WA. Flock's executives (and the engineers who implemented that feature) belong in prison.

Lammy 11mo ago

Relevant federal payola https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?id=D000116304 https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary... https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyists?cycle=2025&id=D000116304 https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyis...

joe5150 11mo ago

Flock has a series of bizarre, obviously LLM-generated blog posts trying to convince the public that they are working "toward a future where compliance and community trust walk hand in hand".... [1] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-compliance-doesnt-have-to-be-so-hard https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-compliance-doe... [2] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-the-work-already-underway https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-the-work-alrea... [3] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-transparency-control-and-the-path-forward https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-transparency-c...

alistairSH 11mo ago
They put off serious “We have always been at war with Eastasia” doublespeak vibes.
- mschuster91 11mo ago
  Flock's founder is just as dangerous a tech-bro as the company he created [1]: > Langley offers a prediction: In less than 10 years, Flock’s cameras, airborne and fixed, will eradicate almost all crime in the U.S. (He acknowledges that programs to boost youth employment and cut recidivism will help.) It sounds like a pipe dream from another AI-can-solve-everything tech bro, but Langley, in the face of a wave of opposition from privacy advocates and Flock’s archrival, the $2.1 billion (2024 revenue) police tech giant Axon Enterprise, is a true believer. He’s convinced that America can and should be a place where everyone feels safe. And once it’s draped in a vast net of U.S.-made Flock surveillance tech, it will be. This guy literally wants to replicate China's social credit score and ubiquitous surveillance in the US - and instead of shunning him, the company and everyone on their board, payroll and investors like an effort of that scale deserves, police, law-and-order freaks and many municipalities flock to it. Where the fuck is the "don't tread on me" crowd? [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/09/03/ai-startup-flock-thinks-it-can-eliminate-all-crime-in-america/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/09/03/ai-st...

c23gooey 11mo ago

See also the latest Benn Jordan video on youtube [1] 1 - https://youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?si=lu_nCW8A94ziP9YW https://youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?si=lu_nCW8A94ziP9YW