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Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.

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[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can't wait for the group that leverages this for some chaotic good. Reconstruct movements of political figures? Track squad cars for a real-time map of what areas are safest for crime? Really flip the surveillance state around and see how it feels to be in the other end of the camera.

[–] OmegaMan@lemmings.world 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

FOA requests are no where near real time and also cost $ to request. They are also not automated. Real government employees will be assigned your request to approve/deny, determine cost, request and receive payment, and then fulfill. This usually takes months or years.

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

That may be true, but Washington has the Public Records Act which says they have to respond in 5 days and can't take longer than a year to provide the documents, and have fines large enough for some people to make a living setting people up for public records lawsuits.

So in Washington, at least, there actually is some accountability.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

At which point it will be national-securitied into knowing they exist getting you a free rope.