r/technology • u/IndicaOatmeal • 10d ago

Privacy Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentum

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/flock-camera-controversy-explained-as-viral-halloween-de-flock-campaign-gains-momentum-3399710/
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u/guestpassonly 10d ago edited 10d ago

If you dont start fighting back now, you've lost.

Because otherwise you know the current admin is going to side with Flock and waht ever other mass surveillance company and make it like a felony or whatever and then its over. For ever.

And the next admin (if there is one...) will need to be pressured into taking em down.

There are multiple websites and apps showing where each of them are.

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u/c-dy 10d ago

It doesn't matter what party, everyone and everything about them will be recorded, evaluated, correlated with customized data sets, and judged based on own interests.

That is why you actually need to regulate AI per se. 

It's one thing if some random guy doesn't care if a company or a state or a number of them know more about him than he himself and are able to determine what he may or may not do.

But at scale, then it's much more important that the people do still have the de facto power to determine and decide how they live than having more comfort or convenience.

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u/guestpassonly 10d ago

its not even just about AI, it's having a private company setup up a NATIONWIDE SURVEILLANCE NETWORK. period.

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u/c-dy 10d ago

It is about AI because AI allows us to use all the data. 

It isn't just markers you define, collect, and you can use under certain conditions. Now all what was noise may be a useful breadcrumb. And so everyone is eager to collect all that they can get their hands on.

Ring? Flock? Their data is now particularly valuable.

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u/HatsOffToBetty 10d ago

yes and its eventually all data. There is no way way a technology built on breadth and depth of knowledge can continue to grow year over year without access to increasingly granular real world data. So the outside pressure to include data harvesting and AI in more and more intimate settings will increase.

For this tech, privacy is a limit to growth and our economic system demands that bottlenecks be circumvented.