The police say that over the weekend, officers found the poles the cameras were mounted on had been cut down and the cameras were gone. Flock cameras are stirring controversy across the country as they compile license plate and other vehicle details in a national database.
  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
    14·
    10 hours ago

    Quick question, how are these flock cameras generally connected to the Web?

    Is it via Wi-Fi, perhaps 4g radio?

    What frequencies would one need to jam (completely theoretically) to know that the camera wasn’t able to send back video of a person cutting it down.

  • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
    82·
    19 hours ago

    I think flock is stealing their own cameras so they can reset them and charge to replace them. There is a clear incentive.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    1002·
    19 hours ago

    I have never and I will never see someone cutting down a Flock camera.

    • chocrates@piefed.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      It’s never our job to assist the police. If they talk to you the only response is “am I being detained”

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      54·
      19 hours ago

      I mean it’s the cameras’ job to keep track of criminals, right? So it’s not my job anymore to give a shit about where they went or what they looked like, surely.

      • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
        24·
        18 hours ago

        Growing up watching Batman and Spiderman be told to leave it to the professionals, I think it might be my job to not interfere by knowing anything.

        My memory has been shot for ten years anyways.

  • Garbagio@lemmy.zip
    27·
    17 hours ago

    I didn’t see shit, I don’t know shit, I plead the 5th, get out of my doorway

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
    16·
    16 hours ago

    If you see someone vandalizing / stealing private surveillance cameras in public areas : No You Didn’t.

    While I get them in public transit it’s still a slippery slope, and could be manually triggered by a (physically protected) driver in needed situation. Then there’s the whole everyone with a phone camera uploading them to Google / Apple (and consequently three letter agencies as well) which is the granddaddy of privacy destruction.

    At some point, when this all shakes out as the terrible idea many have already suggested, we need to require third party consent for visual recording (like for audio in some jurisdictions) and was once required for profitable publication. If that ends up with a lot more landscapes and art photography online, I’ll consider it a win.

    • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip
      71·
      15 hours ago

      Oh yeah man Police departments all over the country will love that rule about always obtaining consent to record.

      “We can brutalize people even harder now??”

      I do hate the Flock shit and everything else you mentioned though. Idk what the answer is other than sane legislation that is for the people so of course that will not ever happen here.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
        6·
        15 hours ago

        Oh yeah man Police departments all over the country will love that rule about always obtaining consent to record.

        Yeah, good point. An exception here would be good, also not requiring consent to film police (and other actors for state violence) should be baked in.