Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse

madhacker•8 minutes ago

Flock is importing China's ubiquitous surveillance in America until every habitable space is captured

tptacek•19 minutes ago

Flock cameras appear to be one of the few things that can get police officers fired.

xnx•14 minutes ago

Silver lining! The cameras are catching criminals.

timoxley•about 2 hours ago

nobody saw this coming

Tostino•16 minutes ago

My town's covered with them already, without much warning in the local news, at least none I saw. And they're about to add 50% more all over the county. Planning on going to the zoning meeting Tuesday to speak against them. Also had a handful of yard signs printed up and put them at major intersections around town warning about the expansion, pointing people to the zoning meeting.

Very much not okay with this surveillance state bullshit.

quacked•11 minutes ago

I don't believe a legal solution is possible. We need a three-tiered response to Flock's surveillance state business strategy, depending on what level of meddling each citizen is comfortable with.

1. Protest via yard signs and awareness (what you're doing)

2. Impermanent vandalism. I like the idea of hanging copies of the fourth amendment over the lenses

3. Permanent vandalism. I think we need bounties on camera destruction and public legal funds to assist in defense, bail, etc.

The police as a class/caste are not interested in the fundamental principles that America was founded on. Individual officers may be interested in civil freedom and privacy but as an entity they only ever march in the direction of total surveillance and domination of the citizenry.

CircuitSeuss•6 minutes ago

I would encourage you to add arrows to your signs/ stickers pointing out the cameras. More impactful when people see (and are unconsensually recorded by) the device first hand.

Good work!

jiveturkey•about 2 hours ago

> weren’t authorized

this is easily solved with current technology, if they had an incentive to do so.

besides firing folks that get caught, flock themselves should be brought to court.

akerl_•37 minutes ago

This feels like a weird comment on an article about how they monitored usage, identified misuse, and terminated the people involved.

There's surely plenty of entities that need better controls around usage of technology / records / etc, but this is an example of somebody having an incentive and then following through.

morkalork•15 minutes ago

Ah but you see flock doesn't own the data so they're not responsible for misuse of it and other such legal deflections.

angry_octet•about 2 hours ago

...andd they are now working for ICE HSI for higher pay.

smallerize•about 2 hours ago

"The names of the fired employees aren’t being released right now." Somehow even after being fired there is no accountability.

Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse

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