Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison

> The list includes a school district near Syracuse, a casino's tribal police force in Connecticut, the Fort Worth, Texas police department 1,600 miles away, and Home Depot Corporation, a private company

Can any private corporation request/buy access? Or is Home Depot special?

Found this: https://corporate.homedepot.com/page/immigration-activity-ou...

Site fails to load without one heck of a lot of uMatrix unblocking.

"The Supreme Court held in Carpenter v. United States that the government may not track the whole of a person's movements without a warrant. This system tracks the whole of everyone's movements, every day, and no warrant is ever asked. "

~94,000 Cameras in the national Flock network that Southold officers had access to, never disclosed to the Town Board

0 Opt-in or opt-out decisions the Town made about any of this sharing, in its own words

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dropping here, again:

- Montana vehicle registrations give you privacy

- are not tax evasion, those straw mans and ad hominems are to scare you into giving away your privacy protections

- you can pay use tax still (consult a professional, I'm no attorney)

That will speak louder to your representatives who are voting in these cameras which violate your privacy.

BTW officials in California, Texas have a history of selling your persona info tied to your vehicle registrations to 3rd policies and have been fined before. Trust them to have changed? Hah.

The flock discourse is slowly climbing the ladder to real discussion. We're at the "mostly intelligent people who are casually interested in the topic being confidently wrong about it" phase (and I know I'm going to get very angry replies accusing me of being one, hah caught you thinking about it!)

> log every trip

> This system tracks the whole of everyone's movements, every day

Funny, because current lawsuits over flock have hinged on the point that they DO NOT have total coverage of roads. Author seems to be talking about Long Island, which is an unusual case, and flock might have total coverage there. But special places need special laws, and an edge case isn't the model for the whole world!

> The Supreme Court held in Carpenter v. United States that the government may not track the whole of a person's movements without a warrant.

No, that court case established that the government needs a warrant to get, specifically, historical cellphone pings from a 3rd party (the cellphone companies).

And overly-emotional language to fool the more credulous:

> It is called Flock for a reason. We are sheep only if we let this happen

Oh please, it's named flock because it's perched on a pole, like a bird, not a sheep.

> feed a national database searched by 59 outside agencies nobody in this town chose

> 0: Opt-in or opt-out decisions the Town made about any of this sharing, in its own words

Well why not? It seems like a lot of the flock discussion takes a bizarre twist where people go "It's useless to try to limit it, we need to ban it outright". Like okay? Do we ban the police when one goes rogue? (I guess that's kind of a bad question to ask, given that "defund the police" was trending a few years ago)