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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Who’d have thought that warrant-less mass surveillance that treats every citizen like a potential criminal would eventually hit a tipping point where people began to fight back against it?
What’s funny is someone at flock is likely seeing this as a business opportunity. “With flock+ we will detect downed cameras and send a technician out to replace them instantly. Subscribe now!”
Meanwhile, municipalities are less than thrilled about defending throwing money at something literally no taxpayer wants.
This problem might solve itself really. Let the buisness majors sell the hangman their own nooses.
Sadly some people do want flock cameras because they think it’s worth it to have a better chance of catching criminals even if our personal liberties get taken away. It’s the age old freedom vs safety discussion.
Those who sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither
Maybe a year or so ago, but now those same people are starting to understand the definition of criminal is flexible.
I agree that the more popular opinion is changing to more freedom, but most of the older millennials and above that I’ve talked to care more about catching criminals because they are more likely to be influenced by Facebook/Nextdoor posts and the mainstream media.
Meanwhile, new age Glassholes Flock to their new Meta glasses.
That’s because they want to be the ones doing the surveilling. There’s loads of disgusting threads you can find online about them discussing ways to disable or hide that their devices are recording so they can surreptitiously record others while claiming they’re not. Most often vulnerable women.
SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Along with it incorrectly labeling people as a criminal so cops harass innocent families
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
That’s a feature. not a bug.
The whole point of warrantless mass surveillance where you collect a person’s entire life history from birth to death is to be able to go back through that history at any point they become an inconvenient person, whether because they are protesting or are a whistleblower or anything else that endangers the existing power structures. They can and will use your history to fabricate a “reasonable” narrative to turn you into whatever type of criminal they claim you are.
This is exactly why they’re pushing the “antifa is an organized terrorist organization” so hard.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
And they wonder why people have anxiety disorders
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
“You’d have anxiety too if you knew that entire government organizations were dedicated to watching your every move while everyone told you that you were crazy.”
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They don’t care, they think you’re weak. Show them you’re not.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 day ago
No, they do not. It is by design, friend.
artyom@piefed.social 1 day ago
I watched a video last night. Some guy was banned from a casino. All they had was a blurry surveillance camera photo of him.
The AI tagged some other guy as him. Cops came and arrested him. Said the man’s ID must be fake, or he used a fake ID last time because there’s no way their high-fallutin AI could be wrong! It was >99% certain!
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Sounds like a blessing in disguise. Now he can’t throw his money away.