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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
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So many fucking horror stories about Flock and how their cameras are misused. The one that makes my skin crawl the most was the Texas cop who stalked someone traveling out of state for an abortion, seeing as how one's geographical location here in the US largely dictates their right to privacy and bodily autonomy. (And it's a clear violation of civil liberties to stalk them using a nationwide dragnet.)
If anyone's bored, I made a video this week about a vigilante in Suffolk Virginia who (allegedly) destroyed more than a dozen of them.
You should read up on cops stalking women. It is terrifying especially since there is a massive power indifference
I've read about that. You're not wrong. Literal horror movie shit.
I know of a cop who is an officer who was hired to be an officer in one city despite being fired for overlooking a DUI in exchange for oral sex at his previous police officer job.
I daydream that this guy will threaten to sue the police and they'll come to an agreement to take down all all the cameras. The citizens will be so happy that they'll go to the state legislature and pass a law to forbid warrantless surveilence. The state will rejoice and their congressional representatives will pass a law country wide. The trend will continue globally.
I do think eventually litigation is going to limit this Flock nonsense, but it'll be after a spectacularly violent event. Some stalker's going to kill a whole family and that'll do it.
I can't lead an effort to push the local govn't to do something like this. I just don't have the charisma, but I would definitely join the cause. I was a part of a club once to overturn a law in a nearby city. It was interesting to see how it all worked.
Even if not, familiarize yourself with DeFlock. At the very least, hopefully, there's a way you can route yourself when you're getting around that'll deprive them of data.
They're expanding their footprint around me. The city and adjacent city both have contracts and several retailers have them at all entrances. I tried to see if I could add the locations to deflock via street complete but then realized that I can't log the sites when (safely) driving.