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Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow
- deepc4life 1mo agoI'd hope he did! I hope all of you do to. This isn't information you want so easily publicly available. It's a pretty easy request.
- lorecore 1mo agoAnd yet there’s no way to get yourself blurred in Flock videos.
- uberman 1mo agoYes, an here in lies the hypocrisy of our times where tech titans can have their information removed from public data sources (anyone remember the guy tracking Musk's plane?) while amassing staggering quantities of data about everyone else. Then have the gall to call for a "compromise" on their collection and selling of this data and our privacy.
- jordanb 1mo agoThe first key feature of the Panopticon is that the guards can observe the inmate at all times and he can't hide. The second key feature is that the inmate can't observe the guards. He can't know who they are and can't even know if they're paying attention to him or not.
- deepc4life 1mo agofor now I guess we just need to wear blue man group outfits....
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- cheese_van 1mo agoIt is an easy request. When the announcement blurring was made available, I made the request just to see if it they would do it - and they did! Now, if anyone in the neighborhood asks me, "Why is your house blurred?" I reply, "Why are you asking? Is anyone asking questions about me? What did they look like?" (well, that's what I plan on replying if anyone asks)
- everybodyknows 1mo agoIt's easy? How please do we get Zillow to do that? Zillow publishes, right now, interior shots of my house -- put up years ago for a sale listing. I have claimed the place as mine, but Zillow won't let me take them down. Zillow allowed inserting new photos in the list, so I did: dozens of big wildlife photos. Considered a raging fire scene, or maybe a crack den, but then of course I might some day want to sell ...
- frollogaston 1mo agoYeah seeing this article was the reminder I needed to blur mine rn.
- darrylb42 1mo agoI don't really understand how blurring out a house adds privacy. Looking around my neighborhood on Google street view I sometimes find houses that are blurred, now that otherwise normal looking house is now suspicious. Because I am physically close I can just look at the house if I wanted to. Someone "special" lives there.
- schiffern 1mo agoI'm confused. If he has nothing to hide he has nothing to fear, right? Seems like some Good Samaritan should set up a mobile pole camera (or twelve) outside his house 24/7. Rest easy, it's all being done for his own safety!
- jordanb 1mo agoThe guy gives me unhinged stalker vibes whenever he does an interview.
- NewJazz 1mo agonow that otherwise normal looking house is now suspicious Mysterious? Yes. Suspicious? I wouldn't think that. Plenty of houses in my neighborhood are blurred. I don't think much about it. And yes, I can just walk over and look. But I'm their neighbor. Not someone megameters away...
- frollogaston 1mo agoYou only know what the front of the house looks like.
- ascorbic 1mo agoSo does Street View
- frollogaston 1mo agoOh, turns out you can't blur the satellite images. Then yeah idk how this helps. Edit: Well maybe you aren't a target to begin with, but mass scanning can make you one. Like if you park some expensive car out front and someone far away checks all houses with expensive cars. It's a bit far-fetched, but there also aren't that many reasons not to blur your house unless the concern is they only target blurred houses.
- xvxvx 1mo agoTells you all you need to know about Flock.
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- higginsniggins 1mo agoFlock ceo attempts to stop people using online photo system from stocking him… … Hmmmm…
- dessimus 1mo agoI mean, I wouldn't want to be boiled into a soup or stew either.
- frollogaston 1mo agoThose images aren't publicly viewable like Google Maps, at least not easily.
- atmavatar 1mo agoI'm not so sure about that. See: https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/14/flock-condor-camera-spy-public/ https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/14/flock-condor-... However, what Jordan found was a free-for-all, with less security than even what a standard Netflix account would require to watch a show. Not only could he access the live footage, but he could also review the video archives and even delete the recordings if desired. There's also https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2025-59407 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2025-59407 The Flock Safety DetectionProcessing com.flocksafety.android.objects application 6.35.33 for Android (installed on Falcon and Sparrow License Plate Readers and Bravo Edge AI Compute Devices) bundles a Java Keystore (flock_rye.bks) along with its hardcoded password (flockhibiki17) in its code. The keystore contains a private key. But that's hardly the only one. For a fuller picture, you may be interested in https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search?keyword=flock&resultType=records https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search?keyword=flock&resultType=re...
- frollogaston 1mo agoSo who's at this intersection right now? https://maps.app.goo.gl/nQauinrTH3aYStk57 https://maps.app.goo.gl/nQauinrTH3aYStk57
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- bastawhiz 1mo agoDidn't this man just go on record saying the public needs to "compromise" on privacy?
- nxm 1mo agopublic already does on multiple levels - it's just to what extent
- thrownaway561 1mo agoPeople are so childish nowadays. The fact that things escalate to the point.
- newspaper1 1mo agoThe Flock CEO just this week told the US public that it needs to "compromise" on their right to privacy. I'm glad things are escalating, we need every single one of these cameras taken down.
- Micrococonut 1mo agoIndeed. This mass surveillance should have been stopped long ago.
- Freedom2 1mo agoAs someone who may or may not have a Flock (YC 2017) watching me as I type this, I'm glad that it exists. I can now feel "Flock Safe and Secure™", knowing that the compromise I've made has been worth it.
- water-data-dude 1mo agoI feel like setting up cameras pointed at the houses of influential people with public web feeds might help push some privacy reform.
- frollogaston 1mo agoOr make all the Flock feeds public. Presently I have to assume all of these can and will be hacked by someone, or abused at a mass scale, so better not put them anywhere that could be a problem.
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- jasonriddle 1mo agohttps://twitterwebviewer.com/?tweet=2092993787605717176 https://twitterwebviewer.com/?tweet=2092993787605717176
- DrJokepu 1mo agoThere’s something wrong with that guy. Quite apart from the gross privacy violation issues. Most of us didn’t even know what Flock was before the Superbowl and now there is this massive public controversy around it, and every time he opens his mouth he makes it worse. The board needs to replace him ASAP.
- roosterIllusi0n 1mo agoMost companies are controlled by CEOs that are on the board and pay themselves a boatload of free stock. The CEOs make sure their exit requires paying them to leave.
- marksully 1mo agoremember Barbra Streisand?
- Borborygymus 1mo agoI guess they must be doing something wrong.
- metalman 1mo agohope the rest of this guys life rhymes with "blurred out"
- josefritzishere 1mo agoPrivacy for me but not for thee
- spl757 1mo agoWhat a futile and stupid idea.
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- alun 1mo agoHow ironic