Speed cameras next. They’re just revenue generators and part of a safetyism Trojan horse for surveillance.
Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
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Re: Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dunno if it is ironic. Most of us recognize that technology itself is a tool. It can be used in any number of ways including ones in which some portions of the population may disagree with.
I don't know about that, nothing about their pitch indicated anything but what their technology is currently used for.
I will give you a weird, but current, example. TSLA ( and virtually all companies that center on Musk as its director -- in the original sense of the word before HR title inflation took it down ) may say one thing about what the plan for the tech is, but, even occasional review of their positioning shows that the "what their technology is currently used for" is in near constant flux. Honestly, the fact that his investors keep rewarding it is beyond me.
Re: Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
#13Nice to see some pushback in the most egregious abuses of privacy. I wonder why we are getting this with Flock but not seeing the same with private security cameras such as Ring, pervasive tracking of mobile devices by carriers and apps, and internet browser tracking. Is it just that there's a direct personal benefit with those devices, and people view the trade-off as being worth it?
>the most egregious abuses of privacy
wait until you hear about EU's EES
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Most of the leadership is from Georgia Tech. Who are you talking about?
I have been corrected: Eyal H. is the Senior Director of Connectivity at Flock Safety
Login to: https://theorg.com/org/flock-safety/offices/hq , if you dare.
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Most of the leadership is from Georgia Tech. Who are you talking about? I have been corrected: Eyal H. is the Senior Director of Connectivity at Flock Safety Login to: https://theorg.com/org/flock-safety/offices/hq , if you dare.
Eyal Hershko is the current Senior Director of Connectivity at Flock Safety.
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Most of the leadership is from Georgia Tech. Who are you talking about? I have been corrected: Eyal H. is the Senior Director of Connectivity at Flock Safety Login to: https://theorg.com/org/flock-safety/offices/hq , if you dare.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eyal-h-1281aa3
"Sr. Director, Connectivity"
Re: Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
#17Nice to see some pushback in the most egregious abuses of privacy. I wonder why we are getting this with Flock but not seeing the same with private security cameras such as Ring, pervasive tracking of mobile devices by carriers and apps, and internet browser tracking. Is it just that there's a direct personal benefit with those devices, and people view the trade-off as being worth it?
I so want to push back that all this is too little too late, because the system ,though still distributed , is effectively in place already. But.. I also don't want to be the old guy telling kids not to rebel. After all, being young and thinking ( knowing! ) one can change the world, is what being young human is all about. FWIW, it may well be their version of decss, ows and so on. On the other hand, come to think of…
With a nationwide effort in swing to dismantle corporate surveillance, the follow up is to pass legislation state by state that prohibits its implementation in the future. Federal legislation on this matter is unlikely to occur until sometime after midterms, and so state legislation is the path to success in the interim.
Re: Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I so want to push back that all this is too little too late, because the system ,though still distributed , is effectively in place already. But.. I also don't want to be the old guy telling kids not to rebel. After all, being young and thinking ( knowing! ) one can change the world, is what being young human is all about. FWIW, it may well be their version of decss, ows and so on. On the other hand, come to think of…
With a nationwide effort in swing to dismantle corporate surveillance, the follow up is to pass legislation state by state that prohibits its implementation in the future. Federal legislation on this matter is unlikely to occur until sometime after midterms, and so state legislation is the path to success in the interim.
We voted out the cameras locally, the feds just installed them at every nook and cranny they had available. Turned out, there was a lot of federal property, so it was back to square one.
Re: Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
#19Flock could easily get around this by paying people to put them on their own property. Then what?
Put energy into legislation. Ring and Nest already do the same thing.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/ring-reveals-they-give...
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#20Nice to see some pushback in the most egregious abuses of privacy. I wonder why we are getting this with Flock but not seeing the same with private security cameras such as Ring, pervasive tracking of mobile devices by carriers and apps, and internet browser tracking. Is it just that there's a direct personal benefit with those devices, and people view the trade-off as being worth it?
>the most egregious abuses of privacy wait until you hear about EU's EES
do you really believe your biometrics being checked once when you enter a continent as a foreigner is the same as being videotaped at every moment in your own country as a citizen?