The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley.
“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”
He says as he continues to launch surveillance drones without asking anybody if they’re okay with that…
On the right, three House Republicans recently introduced a bill that would prohibit the federal government from purchasing automated surveillance systems that use facial recognition, biometric IDs, or license plate recognition, “including a Flock Safety camera.”
Really? Wow. Okay, when you lose Republicans (well, some Republicans), you KNOW you’ve gone too far. Damn.
Okay, here’s the compromise: you close everything down, and we don’t feed you to a hungry business of ferrets.
The compromise is we let you take your cameras down instead of drawing and quartering you.
Fuck these clowns. Their “compromise” is finding some way to quiet the bad press while continuing to do what they’ve been doing.
Remember that town Winona where all eight of their Flock cameras were cut down?
CNN has an interview with a town councilman who says “we’ll just wait until all the news dies down and everyone will forget about all this”
Our elected officials all think we should live in a big PRISON
Okay, here’s the compromise: disband your company and we’ll put away the guillotines.
Safety from what Langley? What are the cameras keeping us safe from?
“Us” is the pedophiles running things, and “keeping us safe” means attacking their critics.
I agree
And the compromise no cameras, more privacy
If you get rid of your right to privacy, you get rid of your right to safety.
So the compromise is they get cameras, and we get to hunt them for sport.
We’ve just not been holding up our end of things.
I like the sounds of this. Here’s an offer:
Fuck off, and the guillotine gets put away.
Everybody wins!
How about we compromise by saying remove them all, give back the money spent, delete all data and in exchange you don’t get the treatments due one helping enable orwillian levels of suvelance
Yup, the compromise is not sending him to Tennessee to be publically hanged.
What are you talking about?
Hey question… its illegal (I think) to suggest or call for the hanging of someone. But is it illegal to publish and support legislation calling for the execution of public figures involved in X Y Z?
If not, I call for legislation to be passed that criminalized the usage of personal data for surveillance. Data collected without permission…
I need to think this through a little more but fuck it right? Make a proposed law that people can publicly support that show just how goddamn serious people are about this shit.
We’ve kinda had that legislation for about 235 years, now.
They just don’t give a fuck.
It’s been tried before, and abandoned because it’s generally a bad idea. What you’re describing is a bill of attainder, a law passed specifically to punish an individual or group.
a law passed specifically to punish an individual or group.
Such as. … a tariff aimed at one specific country?
While not illegal to propose such a law, that would be a bill of attainder, and thus unconstitutional under article 1, section 9, clause 3.
There should be no compromising our right to privacy and these cameras need to go. Fuck Flock and their cash grab.
Fuck flock AND Axon.
Fuck Flock, Axon, and the entire rest of the surveillance state, both government and private.
Interesting that he’s framing it as a balance between privacy and safety instead of privacy and security.
Flock cameras haven’t been proven to make anyone safer.
Yeah what even is the argument for that? Even if a crime is caught on one of these things they’re still not making anyone safer. The crime still happened and that’s the best case scenario where the crime is caught on tape. From what I’ve seen usually these things provide circumstantial evidence at best.
If anything they actively make people unsafe by falsely flagging drivers with a partial tag match for a stolen vehicle
Don’t forget all the stalking by many various people abusing the database and live feeds
They’ve proven that police are just dumb as fuck.
That was well known before Flock.
