Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
seattletimes.com
Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
1–10 of 470 posts
Re: Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
#2NB: Title edited to add "WA" for clarity. I.e., this is the city of, not a toponym for another entity.
Re: Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
#3[flagged]
Re: Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
#4[flagged]
Flock doesn't fight crime, it documents the travel of people without a reason.
Re: Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
#5[flagged]
Its a data gathering system. it takes pictures of everything that goes past it so that IF something happens, cops can search back through the system to see if/when a suspect went past that sensor. This sort of thing should be turned off regardless. I don't want my movements recorded and tracked all the time in the off chance someone might do something later. This ICE situation is the perfect example of why these actively passive systems are a threat.
Re: Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
#6Re: Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
#7[flagged]
Re: Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
#8[flagged]
I’d start by being ticked off that my city was burning money deploying a cloud-connected mass surveillance apparatus.
Re: Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
#9Re: Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
#10[flagged]
Its a data gathering system. it takes pictures of everything that goes past it so that IF something happens, cops can search back through the system to see if/when a suspect went past that sensor. This sort of thing should be turned off regardless. I don't want my movements recorded and tracked all the time in the off chance someone might do something later. This ICE situation is the perfect example of why these acti…
In my home county they've arrested car thieves and recovered vehicles due to real-time Flock hits. It is not simply for forensic purposes.
If it was a bad idea it shouldn't have been installed in the first place. Turning it off now because a few loud people assumed things that weren't true (ICE using the system) is idiotic.