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The Internet Marked Flock Safety CEO’s Home As A Public Toilet Online
www.gadgetreview.com/the-internet-marked-flock-safety-ceos-home-as-a-public-toilet-online
We NEED to put this kind of pressure on all ALPR companies. I don’t mean to take the foot off the gas with Flock, but I’m so afraid that Axon and Motorola and others will swoop in once Flock is gone, and everyone will be done with/tired of this particular public fight.
Replying to @pluge@piefed.social
But also put that pressure on your local city councils (and other state and local government entities) that keep perpetuating this surveillance.
They are often the ones signing on the dotted line for these contracts at the insistence of their ostensibly subordinate law enforcement.
Replying to @littlewonder@lemmy.world
This sort of data collection by private companies should just straight up be illegal. If they’re not beholden to the bill of rights, I don’t want them maintaining this sort of data.
Where I live, many towns have certain spending thresholds, below which some administrator can make unilateral decisions on what to purchase without getting council approval.
Flock et. al. know this and do bespoke contracts for like $1 under the limit, so in many cases the council isn’t even aware.