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Why are Flock employees watching our children?

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Re: Why are Flock employees watching our children?

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The main reason that organizations choose commercially managed solutions is because they don't have local expertise or staff to do things themselves. I do agree that on-prem solutions are better, but Zoneminder is probably not a great option. Besides being old and clunky, it also isn't anywhere near a complete solution, and the IP cameras people often choose to connect to them are often security nightmares. There are…

That and paying to offload legal liability to a vendor. Lots of great, free, widely adopted open source technology solutions aren't adopted by public sector because their legal staff won't accept the liability of not having a paid contract that makes guarantees. Great use of tax dollars.

>>Great use of tax dollars.

I get the sentiment but just note that if you discuss this in public your answer to the problem of staff watching video of kids is... less regulation?

Re: Why are Flock employees watching our children?

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just when you thought it was bad, it gets worse. why do sales employees have access (or ability to request access) to camera feeds at all? i would like to know what other cameras adam snow, bob carter, cameran whiteman view regularly. "search him hard drive" as the kids say. (p.s. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety , sadly the "latest news" section does not have "flock sales employees caught watching…

I think at this point we have to accept the fact that SV and tech founders in gernal are 60%+ p##os and 39% p##o enablers.

Re: Why are Flock employees watching our children?

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access to every camera on the system is the selling point

"our employees can watch any camera at any time" is not one of their selling points.

"your officers can watch any camera at any time" absolutely is one of their selling points
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