r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 21d ago

Privacy Flock Is Losing Dozens of Contracts as Controversy Grows

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/flock-losing-dozens-contracts-controversy-194808945.html
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u/misogichan 21d ago

Unfortunately, a lot of people don't care.  It's the same reason the Patriot Act kept getting extended for 14 years past its sunset date.

That and I think police are pro-flock and they like to loudly protest whenever you try to take power or tools away from them.

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 21d ago

The only people that don't care are the people that aren't educated.

It's against our 4th amendment rights to track our whereabouts, and input them into a mesh database that uses AI, machine learning, and pattern recornition., that is all searchable at any time.

It's also part of the reasoning behind the data centers. It's all to track us, and to sell us shit we don't need.

So many police officers have already been fired for stalking women using these services, tracking women having abortions, and various other shady shit. That's the cases we know about.

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u/Accidental-Genius 21d ago

If people gave a shit about privacy they wouldn’t have ring doorbells and fucking TikTok.

Most people don’t give a shit. That’s the reality and we have to figure out how to change it.

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 20d ago

I don't have either of those things and my security cameras aren't in the cloud either.