A simple error got magnified by Flock’s nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.
It’s time people started to pack a dark hoodie and a battery powered angle grinder wherever they go.
These cameras need to be taken down the instant they appear.
So many fucking horror stories about Flock and how their cameras are misused. The one that makes my skin crawl the most was the Texas cop who stalked someone traveling out of state for an abortion, seeing as how one’s geographical location here in the US largely dictates their right to privacy and bodily autonomy. (And it’s a clear violation of civil liberties to stalk them using a nationwide dragnet.)
If anyone’s bored, I made a video this week about a vigilante in Suffolk Virginia who (allegedly) destroyed more than a dozen of them.
You should read up on cops stalking women. It is terrifying especially since there is a massive power indifference
I’ve read about that. You’re not wrong. Literal horror movie shit.
I know of a cop who is an officer who was hired to be an officer in one city despite being fired for overlooking a DUI in exchange for oral sex at his previous police officer job.
I daydream that this guy will threaten to sue the police and they’ll come to an agreement to take down all all the cameras. The citizens will be so happy that they’ll go to the state legislature and pass a law to forbid warrantless surveilence. The state will rejoice and their congressional representatives will pass a law country wide. The trend will continue globally.
I do think eventually litigation is going to limit this Flock nonsense, but it’ll be after a spectacularly violent event. Some stalker’s going to kill a whole family and that’ll do it.
I can’t lead an effort to push the local govn’t to do something like this. I just don’t have the charisma, but I would definitely join the cause. I was a part of a club once to overturn a law in a nearby city. It was interesting to see how it all worked.
Even if not, familiarize yourself with DeFlock. At the very least, hopefully, there’s a way you can route yourself when you’re getting around that’ll deprive them of data.
They’re expanding their footprint around me. The city and adjacent city both have contracts and several retailers have them at all entrances. I tried to see if I could add the locations to deflock via street complete but then realized that I can’t log the sites when (safely) driving.
That was worse than i expected:
“As we all stood there shaking our heads, including my wife, who was finally allowed to join me, I connected the final dot. A lot of vehicles in JLR’s media fleet have a New Jersey manufacturer plate with the same alphanumeric structure—34 ## DTM—and Officer Ganshyn observed that meant it was now a nationwide issue. Anywhere a police department has a partnership with Flock, any other JLR-owned car with the same plate structure is going to get flagged as stolen. In fact, four other 34 ## DTM cars were being tracked around Minnesota that week, according to Officer Ganshyn. I was just the first one to get nabbed. The only way to stop it would be for the LAPD to correct their initial report and update Flock’s system, which Jaguar Land Rover was now racing to make happen following the phone call.”
Flock continues to shoot itself in the foot
