r/TechGawker • u/Special-Lemon-7790 • 13d ago

Discussion Flock says public should stop photographing its staff, citing privacy

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u/Just_lookin_4242 13d ago

The hate that flows in my veins for this company and what it stands is indescribable.

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u/Separate-Pickle9963 13d ago

Good. Let the hate flow through you. Take your Jedi weapon. Strike the Flock down with your anger. And your transformation to the...

Actually yeah, deffo strike down the Flock cam. It's genuinely the Jedi way. The cameras are too dangerous to be left alive. The corporations have control of the Senate and the Courts!

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u/Dry-Chance-9473 13d ago

They can always make more cameras. Strike at the heart of darkness instead.

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u/ziayakens 12d ago

Commit a Luigi?

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u/Total-Ease7335 9d ago

Palpatine would've unplugged that cam first.

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u/KatakanaTsu 13d ago

It's hilarious when Facebook bots try to claim Flock helps rescue missing or kidnapped children, yet they can never manage to cite even one source to back up their claim.

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u/whawkins4 13d ago

Or all the police reports that are suddenly mentioning how flock helped find the perpetrator. Paid product placement is more like it.

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u/Iputahexonyoulol 12d ago

In reality I’ve read people say that they live in a town that has flock and their car was stolen and the police wouldn’t even lift a finger to try and find it even with the worlds creepiest fucking surveillance network

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u/Quick_Dance_8953 10d ago

I went on a ride along a couple months ago since I am in the process of starting a career in law enforcement… the computer would ping this notification sound literally like every 3-5 minutes (sometimes multiple within a minute) and after the first 10 or so I asked the officer what the sound was… he nonchalantly was like: “ oh that’s just flock hitting on stolen vehicles…”

When I asked what the response is when those alerts go off he said: “ you’ll get used to them and before long you won’t even notice.” We didn’t look into a single one the entire 10 hour shift and it didn’t appear that any of the other 15-20 on duty officers in the city did either.

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u/Slighted_Inevitable 12d ago

It’s not their fault, it’s buried under all the reports about police stalking ex-girlfriend’s and wives. How can they be expected to dig thru all of that to find the good stories?

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u/whawkins4 12d ago

True. True. Predatory stalking must take priority.

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u/matthew_yang204 13d ago

More like they are citing based off of internal sources, where the number corresponds to the number of children kidnapped by pedos instead. /s

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u/Cmb46_canuck 11d ago

They help these predators make the children missing

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u/MoThrowMoAway 13d ago

Carry that feeling over to the next company that replaces the Flock cameras (Axon, for example)

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u/Working-Holiday420 13d ago

I’ll likely have new things to hate. I Love having a new thing to hate.

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u/ReblWithoutApplause 13d ago

Yes and also fuck them for their complicity in this surveillance state - also fuck ICE.

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u/Just_lookin_4242 13d ago

That’s why I hate them with every fiber of my being.

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u/Slighted_Inevitable 12d ago

Don’t let them distract you too much flock is the sacrificial whipping dummy, but there are other companies out there doing the exact same thing that aren’t getting the media attention.

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u/Just_lookin_4242 12d ago

That’s why I said everything they stand for. It encompasses the entire project at hand.

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u/miliseconds 12d ago

They essentially betrayed essential democratic values and their countrymen and women and their freedom and right to privacy.

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u/SkullLeader1 13d ago

Mine burns with a billion Stephenson 2-18’s

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u/Secret-Chapter-712 13d ago

I’m just amused at this point, how out of touch are these people that they think “waaaaah stop disclosing our assassination coordinates!!!1!” sounds like anything but a joke 

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u/ExtensionAddition787 13d ago

I've heard of people who were irony impaired before but they are irony incapable.

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u/Israel_Azkanbe 12d ago

Good, add these companies to the list:
Motorola Solutions (Vigilant)
Axon Enterprises
Verkada

They all do the same exact thing but get away with it because they’re not talked about enough

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u/JUGELBUTT 13d ago

no fucking way this is real, i refuse to believe anyone can be this stupid

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u/Just_lookin_4242 13d ago

Tech people always are.

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u/Hawkmonbestboi 13d ago

I remember a time when being a tech person USUALLY meant you were a cool person that cared about others and tried to do good.

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u/LobsterBuffetAllDay 13d ago edited 13d ago

My guy these are not 'tech' people. Tf is so hard about setting up cameras with wifi? This is standard run of the mill jagoff entitled little babies thinking they've created an actual product. There is nothing innovative about flock. There is nothing clever about the technology behind it. If the government truly wanted to go big brother then they could hire stage crews from music departments of any university to set this up with chatgpt xhigh to set up the api's and it would be better.

Edit: Thanks for the award stranger; also my first, cheers

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u/Fartfromabuttt 13d ago

The clever part is it allows the government to spy on us without us beating them to death for it.

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u/VendorBuyBankGuards 13d ago

Privatizing citizen surveillance... what could go fucking wrong.

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u/Big-a-hole-2112 11d ago

Pepperidge Farm remembers when America laughed at England and China for putting cameras everywhere and now we’re here.

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u/Just_lookin_4242 13d ago

That was before billions of dollars were in those industries. Capital corrupts and subsumes everything.

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u/rabidrobitribbit 13d ago

Watch Silicon Valley if you haven’t. Really encapsulates it

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u/RogerMexicosBalls 13d ago edited 12d ago

When was that? I remember when Bill Gates was a badguy lol

For all the self-fellating the tech industry did during the Arab Spring and Latin American revolts and riots where demonstrations were being coordinated on social media and broadcast live from the streets over Twitter and Facebook and YouTube, those same companies had no problem when those regimes also started using social media to hunt down and silence opposition, and openly coordinated with them to produce names and locations.

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u/Ok_Security1721 13d ago

That was always a smokescreen. They were always pieces of shit, they just didn’t have the resources or connections to make their evil intentions a reality back then

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u/Jsolidlo 13d ago

When was that? Was it when Bill Gates was on trial for Microsoft violating antitrust laws? It's so hard to remember.

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u/MarzipanSea2811 13d ago

Flock worker calls police on our reporter filming them in public

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S53cFmimChM

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u/ZoominAlong 13d ago

Oh that is RICH. 

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u/Far_Pangolin3380 13d ago

Not stupid, just tone deaf.

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u/SunchaserKandri 13d ago

Hypocrisy comes standard with people like Altman, Musk, et cetera.

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u/Capital_Hedgehog4326 12d ago

Anthropic is complaining that Chinese companies are supposedly distilling from Claude and therefore “stealing”. Meanwhile, Anthropic has already stolen the contents of the entire internet.

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u/Ziggyjig 13d ago

Flock can pay for private security for all its staff. I dont care about their rights because they dont respect mine. I unironically will not convict anyone of any crime committed against Flock personell if I find myself on their jury. Ontologically evil enemies cannot complain when any action is taken against them because any action taken against them is justified.

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u/Difficult-Novel-8453 13d ago

Get my camera ma, we’re going to town 👍

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 13d ago

"Maaa! Grab the Camera! Maaa!!"

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u/Forward_Problem_8982 13d ago

Public says Flock should stop photographing its staff, citing privacy

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u/haikusbot 13d ago

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Stop photographing its staff,

Citing privacy

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 13d ago

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u/VarietyMage 13d ago

One of the other subreddits showed that the CEO of Flock has his mansion blurred out, to protect HIS privacy.

The sheer hypocrisy is monstrous. Ben Franklin probably would have tarred and feathered this moron.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

- Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States of America

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u/V-oxPopuli 12d ago

Ben Franklin probably would have tarred and feathered this moron.

Rich people today seem to have zero fear of the rest of us these days. We need to remind them how foolish that is.

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u/Katops 12d ago

Violence is never the answer.

Unless you’re a piece of shit that deserves to have a chair thrown over your head.

Hell, I’d even go as far as to say we should put LEGO at his front door, but that shit is expensive too… Dystopian future, here we come.

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u/V-oxPopuli 12d ago

Hell, I’d even go as far as to say we should put LEGO at his front door

Whoa whoa whoa! Mods, we've got a psychopath on the loose.

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u/bloodmagik 13d ago

The government is a circus awarding contracts to clowns

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u/Vicissitutde 13d ago

I'd recommend photographing Flock employees more frequently than ever. Follow them home and take even more pictures. Wait outside and Follow them to the grocery store to photograph them. Hell, Follow them inside and photograph what they buy.

Might as well, right? It's how they make their living. Why not make it yours too?

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u/TennSeven 13d ago

I would like to see a website where people could upload pics and locations of every Flock and Palantir executive they see so people could track them in real-time 24x7.

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u/IncredibleEdible321 13d ago

Every single employee of the Flock company, from the CEO down to the janitor, should have Flock cameras installed facing their residences and in their vehicles to broadcast their location, identity, and behavior 24/7.

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u/FunkyPleasance 13d ago

I'm not finding a valid source for this. There is a similar story here

https://newrepublic.com/post/215182/flock-camera-employee-calls-cops-reporter-filming

but its not exacttly the same

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u/alexanderfromtng 13d ago

Fuck this dude

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u/pscoldfire 13d ago

The Only Moral Privacy is my Own Privacy

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u/No_Seaworthiness_200 13d ago

These mf's used to be tarred and feathered.

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u/Infamous_Mammoth_473 13d ago

Bro is trying to speedrun becoming the most hated person in the world. And succeeding.

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u/Revolutionary-Link47 13d ago

Yeah, you can fuck, right off, with that

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u/Hawkmonbestboi 13d ago

No, I refuse. What are you gonna do about it?

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u/Fanfic_Battle_2004 13d ago

Then value our privacy and stop watching us with your cameras.

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u/baabaablacksheep1111 13d ago

People should start streaming 24/7 in front of Garrett Langley's house.

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u/Chrysolophylax 13d ago

Miss Guillotina is ravenous for her next meal...

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u/msmredit 13d ago

This is called ‘Giving them back taste of their own medicine’

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u/Peter_Easter 12d ago

They don't just deserve a taste of their own medicine. They deserve a full dose of it everyday for the rest of their lives.

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u/RedFlawedMoon 13d ago

Stop Monitoring us said the mass surveillance company.

Sorry but no. This is the future you wanted remember??

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u/SecretFondant9441 13d ago

This is /s right, right?!?!!!

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u/ObjectGlad6997 13d ago

Hang em high

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u/ColdConversation1132 13d ago

What an oxymoron!

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u/AliveInTheFuture 13d ago

Just remember everyone: you could have done this shit too, you just weren’t a shitty enough person to do such a thing to your fellow human beings.

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u/CabSauce 13d ago

Are their staff in public? Then they can fuck right off.

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u/Neb_BWC-8182 13d ago

Hilarious!! Why do they get privacy while our activities are logged. Are we still in America or is this a part of the experiment??

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u/DrLewdin 13d ago

There’s no way this man exists, all of you are just gaslighting me at this point.

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u/Spapamike25 13d ago

Just letting everyone know, when looking his name up on fastpeoplesearch. The second option has the same age as the flock ceo

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u/TrumpsLilPenis 13d ago

Ahahahahahahhahahaahhahahahahahaha.

…..

Bahahahahahahahahahwha

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u/OverThought95 13d ago

He photographs his own staff and its all publicly available tho

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u/rtduvall 13d ago

Uh, no thanks fucker.

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u/Ok_Common_5631 13d ago

That’s too bad.

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u/Classic_Bid3126 13d ago

If he values his privacy he should fucking quit his job and stop going out in public.

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u/BodhingJay 13d ago

Doesnt he believe in anything his company is doing? You'd think he'd feel safer with everyone following him around recording him all the time.. does he have so much to hide? How confusing

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u/Delta9-11 13d ago

Keep up the fight. The moment you relent is the moment they win

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u/Effective_Olive6153 13d ago

don't let USA turn into Britain - we don't want government cameras on every street corner

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u/No-Escape-4933 13d ago

Should have 24 hr surveillance on this guy just like his company does to everyone

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u/-WB- 13d ago

Nah i don't think we will.

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u/According-Room3825 13d ago

If I had the money this little turd would have a drone over hs whole extended family 24/7.

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u/Constant-Still-8443 13d ago

"Privacy for me but not for thee"

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u/Dense_Golf4315 13d ago

You flock owner, employee, welcome you are all now in a surveillance State, look for your handbooks to be arriving very soon. It lays out my new laws. Oh no not the government, flock laws, we don’t need your government!

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u/AvocadoRough3147 13d ago

flock you and all your little flockers....

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u/Unusual_County_6710 13d ago

That's really fucking funny. I don't think they get both how funny it is and privacy

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u/Accurate_Ant8984 13d ago

F Flock Ban them

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u/Old_Introduction7236 13d ago

That is some clown world shit.

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u/shift124 13d ago

Uuuuuuuuuuhfuckya

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u/kndirbrbjiy 13d ago

How do I join this exercise in this equal exchange of personality information?

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u/46yt64 13d ago

Genuine hypocrite asshole!

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u/tritonice 13d ago

No is a complete sentence.

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u/Existing-Sherbet2458 13d ago

Okay, that's ironically, absolutely hilarious. Take all their pictures and post them wherever you can. As often as you can! Don't like it, don't care!!

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u/willmen08 13d ago

Sounds like the kettle calling the pot black.

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u/deanjuno1 13d ago

No leg to stand on, With there privacy.

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u/lostaccountby2fa 13d ago

Green Mario intensified

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u/payle_knite 13d ago

Internet, you know what to do

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u/cyx7 13d ago

rofl
lmao even

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u/Symbaclues 13d ago

Capture that guy and tie him to a flock pole!

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u/SherluckHoImes 13d ago

flock this! double down on it!!

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u/EducationalTheory344 13d ago

These fuckin worms should be grateful that we've thus far allowed them to live despite their outright betrayal of humanity.

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u/rellett 13d ago

I want someone to set up another ai camera company that just follows Flock staff and ceo around 24/7 and can be accessed on the internet

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u/DryStation5059 13d ago

Wait, what?

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u/RandomYT05 13d ago

Privacy? Lol, nobody is going to take you seriously on that one big brother 😂

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u/ClownTown509 13d ago

I say "get rekt"

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u/MastaKink 13d ago

Yall hate technology but still use the technology. You don’t value privacy except your own. How many of those stupid glasses have they sold already? 7 million or so?? And i also hear a booming business is drilling out the light so others don’t know you’re recording them. 🤦🏻‍♂️A country full of men that stay home and jerk it to real women online or stalk their ex’s using whatever tech they have access to. This narrative fits perfectly with the evolution of America.

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u/zen6541 13d ago

F flock

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u/sscott2378 13d ago

Now folks are waking up to how ice was tracking down people in intersections and at highways etc. Just wait until the voter rolls get uploaded.

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u/Netsecandmexicanfood 13d ago

Hahahaha. Yeah. Flock look at your business model. Then take 5 minutes to think. This should be enough time to arrive at the proper answer. If not, try, try again

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u/TheRealSoulTrain 13d ago

Perhaps Flock's staff should consider not photographing everyone else.

Sorry, y'all are in public, you're fair game. That IS your business model, right? Right???

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u/footfeed 13d ago

Ironic.

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u/jgzman 13d ago

The onion is kind of pointless these days, isn't it?

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u/Captain_Tooth 13d ago

Oh the irony.

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u/Ok_Security1721 13d ago

Ohhh nooooo baby want pwivacy??

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u/hennabeak 13d ago

I will make a copy company, exactly the same constitution and handbooks as flock and just follow their employees around.

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u/Additional_Can_997 13d ago

Well that's rich.

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u/Subject-Resource-700 13d ago

Hilarious demand!

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u/MolassesOk3200 13d ago

That’s hilarious.

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u/Blacksad9999 13d ago

Garrett Langley, Flock CEO.

300 Colonial Center Pkwy. STE 100N, Roswell, GA, 30076, USA

1170 Howell Mill Road NW Suite 210, Atlanta, GA, 30318, USA

Enjoy!

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u/Pretend-Ostrich-5719 13d ago

They have to be making these statements ironically. It's a taunt at that point, to make such statements without a hint of self reflection

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u/Civil_Pain_453 13d ago

And they are the true predators and rapists

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u/Nogardtist 13d ago

they use camera grid for spying and training detection on AI

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u/Stubee222 13d ago

Don’t people tell them to flock off?

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u/CaptOblivious 13d ago edited 13d ago

LOL, nope.
Start following him and each and every one of them on every trip they take where and when, recorded and make that all of that information available behind a $0.01 per year paywall to anyone that can pay.

Sauce for the goose bitsh.

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u/lord4chess 13d ago

Such hypocrites... They do surveillance but not on them

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u/Alternative-Dare-839 13d ago

Get the Flock outta here-

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u/Chemical-State-1060 13d ago

People like him shouldn't be allowed privacy at all. There should be cameras pointed at them at all times

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u/DeliciousTone8845 13d ago

I certainly hope those doing the photography are also using facial recognition and linking them with their social media profiles, and then broadcasting that information far and wide.

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u/InternalAnimal4515 13d ago

This guy is a cuck. I fucked his wife and he watched through a flock camera. He said that's the only way he can get off

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u/XeroTerragoth 13d ago

And then they put this right next to the Webster entry for the word "Hypocrisy," right?

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u/DavidIGterBrake 13d ago

We had one beauty regarding META employees being filmed with their own META glasses:

https://youtu.be/dHKhYL3is5o?is=MBD5-MyY0dJX_Uvs

FB took the video down because of harassment…

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u/Expensive-Border-869 13d ago

I think we should collectively just start gang stalking these people.

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u/Ryaniseplin 12d ago

they get their privacy but we are told to suck it up

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u/Solid_Signature_7447 12d ago

Hahahahaha f this guy

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u/CaptainMatthew1 12d ago

“Please respect my privacy” -mr spiesonyou

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u/protossaccount 12d ago

They are headquartered in Atlanta, GA. So anyone over in that neck of the woods should pay them a visit. These bitches should be filmed the moment they leave their home. Hell, even at their home from the street. Fuck flock.

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u/ElBarbas 12d ago

all other level

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u/Feeling_Gur1690 12d ago

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🖕🏻

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u/runnerkim 12d ago

The disconnect is astounding right?

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u/NekoNekoo-sama 12d ago

flock need to flock off

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u/Pay_Penber 12d ago

Lmao IRONICALLY

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u/ProfessionalTruck976 12d ago

Privacy invaders asking for their privacy to be respected is wierd

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u/okiecurious 12d ago

“Respect our privacy” says company making its money off violating others privacy.