alt Hacker NewsMaybe with these systems we should require them TO be open for anyone to query against. Maybe then people would care more about how they impact their privacy.
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toomuchtodo • yesterday at 11:11 PM
Flock’s objective is to hope people don’t care long enough to reach IPO. Will enough people care to dis enable this corporate dragnet surveillance apparatus? Remains to be seen. I don’t much care about the grift of dumping this pig onto the public markets (caveat emptor), but we should care about its continued use as a weapon against domestic citizens without effective governance and due process.
IIRC, this happened in Washington state: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules...
And as a result, they got rid of the cameras. Funny how that works!