Cross posted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/44409906
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/44409898
In case you were trying to rearrange your schedule to attend this important meeting, it has once again been removed from the agenda and there is a possibility the entire criminal justice subcommittee meeting will be cancelled (again).
Keep emailing your council person, checking for updates, and keep spreading information about this. There is way too much crazy stuff to keep up with, and they definitely don't make it easy to follow what is actually going on in your own city, but the ordinance itself is still on the table.
This is not inevitable as long as we refuse to let it go, and refusing to accept this is not "standing in the way of progress." Progress is when society benefits from the technology it controls, not the other way around. If we have no say in how this first of its kind technology is being used in our own community, then who is controlling it and who is benefitting?
Some asshole is gonna make a new company like Flock but specifically for facial recognition the nanosecond ALPRs get curtailed by the courts. Then Florida, after DeSantis or the next governor gets a fat check from them, will compliment their horrific new license plate cover law with an even worse law making wearing or possessing face coverings a misdemeanor with up to 60 days in jail or a felony if the intent is to avoid being scanned. That includes covering tattoos with makeup to avoid corporeal fingerprinting. Florida will rapidly export their new "freedom enhancing" laws to every red state. Once the courts finally catch up to that in 30 years or so, some new asshole will follow the formula again but for gait recognition this time. The courts will then rule that the fourth amendment is, like, super lame and outdated except to protect pedophiles in the now permanently installed regime. You put a rock in your shoe? You have a limp? Believe it or not, jail.
I've been happily giving the bird to every Flock camera I see.
Don't let those sightings go to waste. Add them to the https://deflock.org/ map.
You think flock isn't planning to implement facial recognition once all the cameras are in place? This isn't some future problem, it's happening as we speak.
True, it'll probably just be Flock pivoting to each new dystopian surveillance technology the geriatric judges haven't learned about yet. The infrastructure can always be repurposed.