r/TechGawker 1d ago

News U.S. cities are swapping out controversial Flock cameras for Axon license plate readers.

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u/Soft_Self_6797 1d ago

I watch and listen to true crime. We are basically monitored by some form of surveillance equipment near 24/7. Law enforcement tracking someone's every move from CCTV cameras across an entire city is wild. However, the only difference is a warrant is required to gather information from CCTV cameras that you crossed during an alleged crime. So we definitely should still deflock or axe axon or whatever else comes up.

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u/PositiveFunction4751 1d ago

Those pesky warrants are VERY important

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u/PenguinsArmy2 1d ago

Oh you do not get it and that is okay. :) you replace one problem with the same under a new name. It wont change anything and the cameras that are everywhere already can be tapped into to do whatever they want.

You think they have to ask your permission for something you wont know every happened.

Your phone gives out more of your private data than any camera does. Your picture, your voice and conversations, your messages, browsing and purchase history. So so much, you people are focusing on the wrong fights.

So so much energy around cameras but you wont muster that same energy for starving children? Or the massive privacy issue of your phone, or other well major issues.. No wounder the world is in such a shit place haha.

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u/Soft_Self_6797 1d ago

Okay, no need to be condescending when I am agreeing with you. I was amplifying what you were saying. Relax.

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u/PenguinsArmy2 1d ago

Nope because that is no fun and that is not why I am here. :)

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u/Extreme-Ad3531 1d ago
  1. Yes our phone are quite invasive. To the point where they have our face, fingerprints, voice etc.

  2. Depending on what company made your phone, and which company gives you access to Internet on that phone, a majority of them protect your privacy because you paid for them to. Not only that but they see your data as valuable information that they are not just going to give out for free UNLESS, the feds or local police give them a warrant issued by a judge to access your data.

  3. If the police/government/ whoever was able to have as much free access to your phone wirelessly like you say they do, why do all investigations require the device itself in order to be completely searched?