Nothing a big, heavy mallet can't solve.
I was thinking more super soaker paint?
They are mounted quite high.
Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
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#262Wow. License plate readers are everywhere.
Please do not call these "license plate readers". They are far more sinister and have far more advanced capabilities.
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#263That city should just make it legal that the citizens can paintball or spray those cameras anytime and anywhere.
This will escalate - every new car on the road comes with a bevy of cheap cameras integrated - I get 360 degree views when backing up from my 2018 Chevy Bolt. It's really only a matter of time before license plate scanning computers get integrated - there's already a cellular modem integrated into the vehicle - I don't use or pay for that feature, but it's an opportunity.
Nothing dictates you must own and drive new cars.
If you want a new car, I imagine disabling the modem should be trivial.
I agree with your comment though.
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#264Re: Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you work for such a fucked up dystopian Orwellian corporation? Appreciate any other insider details you have to share.
> Why would you work for such a fucked up dystopian Orwellian corporation? I never understood how someone can ask such a question. It's not like you can just change jobs like you can change clothes. Some people have a family to feed so they can't just decide to be jobless for a few months. Finding a new job takes time you might not have if you still have to show up to your existing job and keep up the mask as if you…
"Because of the broken socio-economic hellscape we are forced to exist in" is certainly a valid-ish answer.
> What's the alternative? Make your own company?
Check address bar? :)
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#266My family is from Evanston and I'm 100% behind this. Evanston isn't a town where the people want mass tech surveillance and I guarantee you knowing my cousins and shit that if you fuck around the wrong way you'll learn the meaning of,
"try that in a small town" in a fucking hurry.
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't really want private parties doing mass surveillance either.
me either, but their power is limit. Governments can ruin you forever and even disappear you without any real consequences
I have recourse against the government. I have less recourse against private companies.
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#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty casual about committing federal crimes.
Argumentum ad legem. Was slavery moral because slavery was legal? Apart from that,the device's raison d’etre is committing federal crimes, namely violating the 4th amendment rights of private citizens. Previous case law has found mining historical cell phone location data to be a 4A violation requiring a warrant.
Couple things. I pointed out a risk, I said nothing about morality. If these devices are a fourth amendment violation, there's a solution that doesn't involve jamming.
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm basically in the same boat. There is no practical way for me to avoid having my picture taken 6 or more times every single day. I flip the camera off each and every time I drive/walk by it. It's infuriating.
Why do you care if you're not doing anything illegal?
Because I'm not a criminal, so why should I put up with being treated like one?
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Not an american, here in germany you'd barely get a fine if they even bother to prosecute you for using a jammer for a few minutes here and there. But I don't yet have to deal with ai powered surveillance cams by private companies in my city.
Well that is too bad. I am glad it is taken seriously here in the US because wireless jamming is a serious public safety issue.
> Well that is too bad. I am glad it is taken seriously here in the US because wireless jamming is a serious public safety issue.
Yet evidently we don't care about an actual massive public safety issue in the form of these cameras cataloging each person's habits and frequented locations and freely handing them out like candy to any organizations willing to fork out the cash.
Go figure, at least people can't jam the cameras, imagine how bad that would be...?