Darkassassin07

Did you read the article provided?

Even a police officer cannot just follow someone around all day every day, without reasonable articulable suspicion. They would also be guilty of harassment and/or criminal stalking.

Again, it’s not that a camera is recording that’s the problem. It’s the infrastructure behind those cameras that aggregate all the data into a single database which requires no cause to search. Anyone with a badge/title can track anyone throughout the whole country, with no probable cause, no warrant, and no oversight. They don’t even have to say why they’re searching the system.

An ex partner fleeing an abusive boyfriend/girlfriend that happens to be a police officer (or that has a police officer buddy) can and will be hunted down by that ex, and nobody will know until it’s too late. This system directly puts people in danger.

at least 50 documented cases across the United States in which law enforcement officers have been charged with or accused of misusing AI-powered automated license plate reader systems to conduct unauthorized surveillance of intimate partners, ex-partners, or women they wanted to meet. In 26 of those cases, prosecutors and investigators concluded that officers used the technology specifically to spy on wives, girlfriends, former partners, their exes’ new partners, or women they sought to approach.

These systems also get used by government agencies (on both sides of the spectrum) to track anyone that disagrees with their political stance, fishing for ways to harass, jail, or run them out of town/state. Governments given this type of power stop being democracies and become dictatorships; because anyone that could or would challenge them get hunted down.

I see nothing wrong with what you’re doing in public being available to law enforcement.

It wouldn’t be a problem if every person with access to this system was 100% honest and just; but thats simply not the reality of the world. There are ALWAYS people that will abuse these types of tools for evil purposes. That’s why we have a court system instead of just making every police officer ‘judge, jury, and executioner’.

Flock removes the court system and puts all the power in every single officers hands. That is NOT a good thing.

‘Every police officer has good intentions’ is a fantasy. If you can’t see that, you’ve spent way too much time inside.

Flock effectively follows you around like a stalker.

If I was to follow you around all day, recording everything you do (even if I just stay in public spaces), I would be guilty of harassment and potentially criminal stalking. Flock does the same thing, just via a network of cameras instead of literally following you in person.

There are tons of public cameras, but they’re owned by seprate individuals/companies. You’d be required to get permission from each ones owner to collect their footage, which in itself provides saftey against stalkers. The owners of that footage are in no way obligated to provide it and will likely refuse without being given a good reason. They may even still refuse until provided with a court order. That oversight, from both the footage owners and the courts that order it to be handed over, protects people from unlawful harassment, particularly stalkers.

The fact that Flock provides anyone with a badge/title the ability to freely search a massive database for every public location a person has been, what they were wearing, how they walk, what bluetooth devices they had, their mode of transport (plus every detail about it Flock can extract), facial recognition data, and more - is terrifying. 0 oversight: no warrant, no reasonable suspicion, no evidence of a crime; just following you around hoping to catch you doing something they don’t like (regardless of whether it’s illegal activity or not).

If you haven’t yet, you should really read that article I posted above.

A single search query recruits that entire network as a passive tracking apparatus. An officer who sets a specific plate on a “hot list” receives an automatic alert whenever that vehicle appears anywhere in the system — across city limits, across state lines, across jurisdictions the officer has no authority in. The abuser does not need to be present. The cameras do the watching for him.

Your presumptions aren’t helpful in the slightest. Educate, don’t enflame.

Being unaware of the ramifications is not even remotely the same as being ok with them.

One camera isnt the problem.

A whole network of cameras tracking your every move, logged in a national database that doesn’t require a warrant or oversight is.

Police require a warrant to get your phones location data, but they don’t require one to ask Flock for your every move. This has already been abused hundreds of times by police and city employees to stalk their ex partners and more…

Here’s one article of many

It’s the classic World War II napalm.

rxmechanic.com/styrofoam-and-gasoline/

Acetone works too. You really don’t have to be that picky.

Gasoline will do the same.

Molotov’s are pretty cheap/easy to make and they’re pretty effective during construction, before the sprinkler system is installed+charged.

I guess it automatically locallizes the price. Shows me 23.99CAD.

Doesn’t show me a captcha either.

I don’t see why not, and for $24 you may as well give it a go.

Schools are the obvious places to test/enact these types of changes too.

Kids don’t know to speak out against remote policing via robotics, and normalising it now gets them used to it’s wider use in society later.

It’s much easier to raise a generation under a new set of standards, than it is to make an existing generation accept a new normal.

Drones are an effective tool on an open battle field; but they operate under wildly different conditions. Wide open spaces and short contacts (find target, ram to explode. They don’t have to loiter and maintain that contact).

A pepper spray equipped drone in a school??? Tight enclosed spaces with halls and doorways (that are usually closed) you’ve got to navigate. Quad copters are loud, and that’d be amplified by that enclosed space. Without sufficient distance to keep out of reach they’d be an easy target to take down by the assailant. To use the spray, you’d have to get near, deploy it, and escape before being struck down; giving the spray to the assailant to harvest and use.

AND they’ve only got 8min of flight time.

Interesting to see how this goes.

• he didn’t wipe it, the CBP officer did
• what evidence? Phones empty.
• um repeatedly denied a lawyer? Toss the case.

That’s one of the joys of FOSS, when the dev for a popular project can’t continue; there’s often someone willing to pick up the torch and carry it forward.

I switched to this fork when the one you’re thinking of ended development.

github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower

Last update 3 days ago.

Homepage is my main front end/landing page for reaching/monitoring all my services; but I’ve got both my dockge instances linked together as well, so all my services show up in both.

I run watchtower on a cron schedule. It had already fired for today, so it wouldn’t have run again until tomorrow. I could have waited, but manual is just as easy.

I do love docker + a front end like dockge.

Saw this post, switched to my browser, clicked three buttons; vaultwarden is now updated. Didn’t even move my lazy ass off the couch. (I’m on my phone)

Thanks for the PSA! :)