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Flock Safety privacy changes: retention cut to seven days
Flock Safety privacy changes cut data retention from 30 days to seven and make search audits compulsory, after dozens of police abuse cases.
thenextweb.com/news/flock-safety-privacy-changes-data-retention
Fuck you, I don’t want to live in a private panopticon, you don’t have the right to make us
private panopticon
That’s the only thing George Orwell got wrong: he envisioned surveillance conducted by the state - i.e. communism, but what we end up with today is surveillance conducted by late-stage capitalist monopolies in cahoots with the state - i.e. fascism.
It’s almost like the demonization of the economic theory that kept men from gaining power arbitrarily though riches had nothing to do with the universal evil that is authoritarianism and that it was all a ruse to allow the most sinister men to rise to power through whatever subterfuge they could muster 🤔