Well, the CEO did openly invite and approve of this. In his own words, Flock cameras aren’t forced on anyone. So the only logical conclusion is to destroy them if so desired.
Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.
Submitted 13 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling
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RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
BanMe@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
There’s one a block from my house, and three blocks from my work, so they can see me coming and going each direction.
…BRB
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
my neighbor hood has one right at the entrance. I make a point of flipping it off every time i pass it. Also, If you were curious how many of these violations of privacy are around you. Here you go- deflock.org/map
londos@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Everyone should start 3d printing faces of Epstein and take them everywhere they go
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
No curiosity here. I just assume I’m being monitored everywhere I go now, though I keep my phone in a faraday bag when I’m not using it, so that at least is something.
All a person can do now is manage the problem incrementally. I love the idea of people sabotaging doorbell cams though.
r0ertel@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This is too defeatist for me. I am upset to see these all over town, but too small minded to do anything about it. I want to start something to pressure community leaders to change, but i worry that i’ll make a lot of noise then drop it like i do with everything. I’d love to join with a group.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Well, that’s actually better than I thought. I wonder if Seattle got rid of them? Home Depot (Pieces of Shit) and an Amazon building that overlooks the interstate seem to be the only ones in Seattle proper.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Tell hood he should take that thing down!
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Just gonna leave this here for anyone so inclined
mmmac@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Yeah I’m based in one of the highest density ALPR regions in the country, this would just be going off constantly lol
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Is there a common quadcopter on the market capable of carrying a paintball gun or something else that can splatter lenses?
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Similar to what happened in Hong Kong a few years back when the CCP introduced metal telephone poles chock full of monitoring equipment and cameras.
Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Offtopic, but it’s sad how all discussion about Hong Kong just slipped away into the void. I think this is the first time I’ve seen it mentioned in almost a year.
One of my friends just didn’t even remember it happening, he thought I was making it up at first.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
It’s sad, but I don’t think there’s much else that can be done. I guess it’s all running how the CCP wants it now? (Or are there still protests we just don’t hear about?)
LemUser@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They are beginning to disguise them in cones, barrels and small ones on a pole as small as rebar.
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Yes, that’s why we have https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/flock-you
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 11 hours ago
“Sabotage”
IratePirate@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Yeah, it’s a weird way of spelling “liberation”.
XLE@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Pesky German dissidents sabotage military equipment, 1944.
testaccount372920@piefed.zip 10 hours ago
How would you take such a camera down without being spotted and tracked? Do they not look in all directions?
Not asking for all the technical details on how to take one down, just curious how so many can be taken down with so few arrests after. I guess it’s a matter of good disguises?
Agent641@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Leave your phone at home.
Don’t drive your own car there, and don’t get an uber.
Ride a scooter, bicycle, or walk.
Wear a dust mask, headphones (to prevent ear pattern recognition) and safety glasses.
Wear a high vis vest while working on the camera.
Wear dark clothing with no logos over the top of something dorky, like a white Ralph Lauren shirt and golf shorts. Ditch the dark clothing if you even sense you might be stopped on the way home.
Put duct tape on the soles of your shoes to make the shoe prints indistinct.
Wear gloves, rigger gloves are fine, latex if you have nothing else.
Work quickly, never run (unless your under disguise is a jogging outfit) and if you see a cop, security, or any person that suspects you, believe in your heart and soul that you haven’t committed a crime. Find a way to delete the act from your memory, become an innocent person. Emotional escalation to cop should be indifference, confusion, irritation, indignant, lawful but otherwise suspicion, and when detained or arrested, silent cooperation. That’s how innocent people behave when suspected or accused of a crime. Once detained, say nothing except your name, age, DOB, address, license number ect and “I don’t know, I need to speak to a lawyer.” Even though they will ask you a thousand questions to try to get you to implicate yourself. There is nothing you can say that will talk you out of cuffs.
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Specifically say you are invoking your right to silence and specifically say you are invoking your right to council.
If they continue to pester you after this, it’s a violation of your rights and a lawyer will have more ammunition to defend you.
If they come back hours later and try talking to you again, you invoke them again. After a significant period of time (whatever the cop decides) they can try again to “see if you’ve changed your mind.”
But just staying silent is not the same in the courts as invoking your right to remain silent.
People tend to want to talk and fill silence. You’ll have to control your urges and learn to be comfortable in silence.
scala@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
They usually face one direction. And don’t place them to watch each other afaik.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Well, that might change after this though.
sobchak@programming.dev 7 hours ago
I’ve seen them installed in pairs that watch each other. I also see them in the vicinity of store security cams or intersection cams. I don’t know of one in my area that isn’t in range of another camera.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Wear appropriate clothing/face covering. Bring paint. Paint lenses. Then dismantle camera.
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Balaclava and crowbar combo?
Ulrich@feddit.org 9 hours ago
They’re not omnidirectional. You can just walk up from behind it.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
right, but you do have to approach it. I think the question is more “how are people not being tracked from blocks away”
r0ertel@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I would wonder if it would be illegal to promote your live of the country by hanging a giant flag directly in the viewing path of the camera. Would you get arrested for being too patriotic?
Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
There it is a small glimpse of hope
andybytes@programming.dev 12 hours ago
Awsome just like in europe and the UK… nice
HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Where in Europe does a private company do this?
GDPR explicitly outlaws it.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
This is fantastic news
kokesh@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Great. Next hand tRump
archchan@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Good, fuck this panopticon dystopia shit.
Also, some guy sliced the entire pole and left a message:
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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
They sell battery powered angle grinders at Harbour Freight.
JPAKx4@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Pay cash
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Paint ball guns with permanent ink ammunition works too.
Agent641@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Damn that’s aluminium, not steel. You can do that with an angle grinder, reciprocating saw, or even a mapp gas torch
littlewonder@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Great word choice.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
lol
Fijxu@programming.dev 8 hours ago
“crime”
This news man lol
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Killing nazis is also a crime. Both currently, and throughout nazi Germany.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Guess who else also needs to be “vandalized”
thuhtoosan@programming.dev 2 hours ago
lol that’s so cool!
InnerScientist@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Can’t have shit in Detroit.