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I doubt the surveillance state is going away any time soon.
by t1234s 3mo ago
I doubt the surveillance state is going away any time soon.
- elictronic 3mo agoCompany directly lies to governing body of city. Is found out the next day. Loses contract. Attacks city online afterwards. This isn’t about surveillance states, it’s about companies run by idiots.
- stackghost 3mo agoWhat if the surveillance state is also run by idiots?
- dhosek 3mo agoWhy not both?
- wmf 3mo agoIronically, Flock might create enough backlash to trigger regulations against surveillance. They're certainly an example of what not to do.
- zombot 3mo agoWhile police just use fleets of drones. Hardly any backlash there.
- preg_match 3mo agoPolice in America is so beyond cooked that the entire system needs to be rethought. It's just not working from any angle. It's expensive as all living fuck, with the majority of city budgets going to the police. It doesn't prevent crime. Traffic violations are still rampant, including speeding and reckless driving. And, worst of all, nobody likes it. People complain constantly and police basically just whine about how hard their job is. Who is this for, really? Is this just a complex money-siphoning scheme to extract funds out of local governments?
- wrs 3mo agoThis just sounds like the standard playbook for this crowd (by which wide brush I mean authoritarians and their enablers). They really hate being called on their lies, and their immediate response is to attack with whatever comes to hand (press release, xeet, the DoJ…depends on the person).
- Mountain_Skies 3mo ago[flagged]
- mindslight 3mo agoYes, five years ago was the start of it all. Everything was just peachy before then. No authoritarian laws, no government surveillance, no enshittification (aka arbitrage of tech authoritarianism), no private surveillance industry creating dossiers on each of us that would make Stasi agents blush. It was all kicked off by HN comments five years ago. </s> Please stop grinding whatever axe you think you're grinding, and put that energy towards something useful.
- wredcoll 3mo agoDon't vague post. Either be specific with names and examples and citations or don't waste our time with generalities about unnamed bad people who did some unspecified bad thing.
- nearlyepic 3mo agoYeah dude, Covid vaccinations were what started us on the slide to authoritarianism. Not 9/11. lol give me a break
- blitzar 3mo ago> this crowd These companies are tech bros - they are selling to the authoritarians and they are increasingly their enablers, funders and biggest sycophants.
- FireBeyond 3mo agoRe ICE having access to data: "Flock said that they did not, when they did, but that it was not their problem". Just like it's "not their problem" that in a state where certain types of data sharing is not permitted. There's nothing they'll change in the agency's account to prevent it. They'll even offer training on it. Because it's "not their problem".
- otterdude 3mo agoIt wont go down willingly but its possible
- tjwebbnorfolk 3mo agoFor all the privacy and competence issues, if it helps cops solve crimes while sitting on their asses, it's going to win.