City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo

Post by exe34 » Fri, May 01, 2026, 9:23 PM UTC

john_strinlai wrote: post #6

> “The city of Dunwoody is one city in our demo partner program,” a Flock spokesperson told 404 Media. “The cities involved in this program have authorized select Flock employees to demonstrate new products and features as we develop them in partnership with the city. the two things i still dont understand are: 1) why is there not a dedicated demo environment for demos, like practically every other software? i cant t…

Post by mschuster91 » Fri, May 01, 2026, 9:27 PM UTC

themafia wrote: post #25

bluGill wrote: post #19

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Any sane business that has lots of random people coming in will have cameras recording (except in bathrooms/locker rooms). There is too much opportunity for crime, and a camera is cheap. If something happens you pull up the feed from the last month and give the interesting parts to the police; most often you just delete everything after a month. More than one crime has been solved this way. That said, if there wasn't…

> There is too much opportunity for crime, and a camera is cheap. The camera doesn't prevent crime. It just displaces it. Even when it doesn't it will not prevent the crime from happening. It _may_ provide you an opportunity to prosecute the person who committed it. In reality the only real reason to have one is to reduce your insurance premiums. > crime has been solved A perpetrator was potentially caught and now ha…

Post by heironimus » Fri, May 01, 2026, 9:31 PM UTC

john_strinlai wrote: post #6

> “The city of Dunwoody is one city in our demo partner program,” a Flock spokesperson told 404 Media. “The cities involved in this program have authorized select Flock employees to demonstrate new products and features as we develop them in partnership with the city. the two things i still dont understand are: 1) why is there not a dedicated demo environment for demos, like practically every other software? i cant t…

Post by ToucanLoucan » Fri, May 01, 2026, 9:38 PM UTC

chneu wrote: post #32

john_strinlai wrote: post #6

> “The city of Dunwoody is one city in our demo partner program,” a Flock spokesperson told 404 Media. “The cities involved in this program have authorized select Flock employees to demonstrate new products and features as we develop them in partnership with the city. the two things i still dont understand are: 1) why is there not a dedicated demo environment for demos, like practically every other software? i cant t…

Answer to 1 is simple and obvious based on Flocks previous actions: they have no idea what they are doing and are reacting instead of planning.

Post by pornel » Fri, May 01, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC

heironimus wrote: post #46

exe34 wrote: post #41

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If it really has to be a live system, they could just set one up in a broom closet at hq?

That does not demo well at all.