Stop Flock

I followed the shooting at Brown University last year very closely. Brown's leadership was heavily criticized for having camera blind spots and not being able to track the shooter's exact movements through campus. I can understand why people with stewardship over the safety of their students/customers/constituents would make decisions to err on the side of tracking. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I understand it.

Re: Stop Flock

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 1:34 AM UTC

himata4113 wrote: post #5

This is just reiterating same points deflock does including mentioning deflock and images from deflock? Deflock: https://deflock.org/ Also: https://haveibeenflocked.com/

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Re: Stop Flock

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Post by sfblah » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 1:38 AM UTC

jimmar wrote: post #7

I followed the shooting at Brown University last year very closely. Brown's leadership was heavily criticized for having camera blind spots and not being able to track the shooter's exact movements through campus. I can understand why people with stewardship over the safety of their students/customers/constituents would make decisions to err on the side of tracking. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I understand it…

With most of these things, people are against state power until they are victimized. It’s a common pattern.

Re: Stop Flock

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Post by bmitch3020 » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 1:40 AM UTC

I don't want to stop Flock the company. I want to stop Flock the business model, along with all the other mass surveillance, and the data brokers. If the business models can't be made illegal, it should at least come with liabilities so high that no sane business would want to hold data that is essentially toxic waste.

Without that, we are quickly spiraling into the dystopia where privacy is gone, and when the wrong person gets access to the data, entire populations are threatened.