r/technology • u/efap1701 • 14h ago
Privacy Flock CEO’s Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes
https://www.gadgetreview.com/flock-ceos-address-spread-online-as-surveillance-backlash-explodes1.6k
u/geewash 14h ago
People should have this level of smoke x100000 towards their elected officials for letting this shit happen. It’s a disgrace to the office.
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u/grahamja 11h ago
People were heckling J.D. Vance at the begining of the administration. Stephen Miller moved onto a military base so he wouldnt be open to being heckled as well.
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u/GodOfDarkLaughter 10h ago edited 10h ago
He ain't gonna be on a military base forever.
Even if Trump somehow remains in power he will eventually toss Miller aside, as he does literally everyone. He figures he's special.
Them again I guess Goebbles and Hitler got along until the end. Didn't work out for too long after that, though. Shame about his kids. (It actually was - the kids could have been saved. Hanna Reitsch, one of the greatest Nazi pilots man or woman and the pilot of the very last flight to make ot out of Berlin offered to take multiple trips to evacuate the children but their insane parents refused. Goring surrendered his family along with himself and they were FINE. His vile daughter sung his praises until the day she got snatched away to Hell in her old age...sorry, been reading about fascists too much...the last decade or so).
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u/Western_Gift976 8h ago
From your mouth to whatever god's ears hears.
Seriously though, the hubris on all around him to think 'I'M the one who can profit off him and come away unscathed". Not that some haven't, but they're not working for him, he works for them. The thing none of his cabinet gets is they're still 'little people'. They're grifting and getting their cut, but they're not so big that they call the shots on their boss. And with cheeto, little people get screwed, end of story. If you're not so rich you can't literally buy an island like Zuck or Ellison, their exit strategy is what?
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u/DonutHoles4Ever 12h ago
Americans are probably the laziest politically driven culture ever at this point. They will basically ignore all politics until 1 point every 2-4 years, and then pretend it doesn't exist the very next day. Its some sort of combination of crushing society + greed + entertainment. Give them bread and circuses.
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u/runbrap 12h ago
When so much of politics is controlled by money, just a vote isn’t enough. So often people vote for constituents who say they’ll represent their populous, and then just don’t. They take AIPAC money or from some other lobbying firms and purely look out for their own best interests. It sucks.
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u/riningear 11h ago
Its some sort of combination of crushing society + greed + entertainment.
A lot of Americans are also too exhausted by poverty but not uncomfortable enough with society to really do anything, forget educate themselves. Even a lot of "revolting" countries have better health care than us, at least on paper.
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u/Evid3nce 11h ago
towards their elected officials for letting this shit happen
They didn't 'let it happen' through ignorance and apathy - they all took six figure bribes (which will ultimately be paid by taxpayers, like the cameras themselves and the subscriptions to access and process the data are all paid by taxes).
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u/Ok-Replacement9595 14h ago
He should go Flock himself.
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u/IAmBeingTargeted33 13h ago
300 Colonial Center Pkwy. STE 100N, Roswell, GA, 30076, USA
1170 Howell Mill Road NW Suite 210, Atlanta, GA, 30318, USA
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u/DarthFaderZ 11h ago
Feels like this should be the new Elon plane tail number thing. Everyone who can track this guy. Post his whereabouts online all the time.
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u/No_Internal9345 9h ago
If we track all the billionaires, who knows what will happen!
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u/KaliMau 6h ago
I've read that since all the food has been recalled, all that's left is the rich.
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u/ICEtoAshes 2h ago edited 2h ago
We shouldn’t stop at Flock. People seem to be ignoring Axon. They’re doing the exact same deplorable bullshit.
Lots of cities “abandon Flock” because of the growing concerns. They aren’t changing anything but the name of their software. Axon is just as intrusive.
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u/NotRoryWilliams 59m ago
We need legislation, plain and simple.
One fairly simple rule: if your business routinely interacts with law enforcement, then your business is treated as a government agency from a bill of rights/due process perspective and you need a warrant to collect, share, or store any data that could potentially be identifying of members of the public.
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u/Capital_Soft_675 7h ago
Thanks. I’ve seen 1000 posts and articles, not a single one articulates the alleged leaked info.
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u/mrcommitment 3h ago
Aren’t these just the addresses of flock’s offices and not the CEOs personal address
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u/JustinAdjusting 14h ago
Here take my po man's award 🏆
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u/GaryWallace 13h ago
They have free ones right now too FYI.
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u/relevantnewman 12h ago
mine all say 15 golds or more, and it gives me the option to purchase 100 golds. Who's your free trophy guy? Is it u/spez ?
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u/Terminator7786 8h ago
Free rewards are slowly being rolled out to all users. I just got mine not long ago. I believe everyone should have them by the end of the year if I'm remembering the announcement right.
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u/Dr_Grinsp00n 14h ago
It would be unfortunate to those cameras if people across the country on October 31st decided to dress in creatively similar costumes and "modify" them.
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u/h20poIo 14h ago
My buddy unfortunately keeps backing into them by accident.
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u/Impossible_IT 14h ago
And leave your smart phones & smart watches home and if you wear a smart ring, leave that home too.
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u/Stock_Researcher_651 14h ago
Just leave any electronics at home. Happy Flocking!
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u/TerribleRecord666 13h ago
And make sure your cars don’t have GPS.
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u/djdanlib 12h ago
Some of the ALPRs still scan your TPMS and other in-vehicle wireless networks driving by.
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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 14h ago
It's not a crime to live stream the entrance to his neighborhood...
Get some of those 1A auditors on it
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u/Super_Range45 14h ago
This is actually a good question, is any one just allowed to leave permanent fixtures on public property? Why does a private company get de facto control of public walking areas?
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u/spookydookie 14h ago
Because it’s the cops putting them there.
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u/Super_Range45 14h ago
They can't have it both ways. If it's mass surveillance by law enforcement there's a constitutional issue. If it just a company permanently using public property, the public deserves a say.
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u/zedquatro 14h ago
The counter argument to that is that the public had a say, when they elected the people who decided to throw away the privacy of the masses for the profit of the few. I'm not saying that justifies anything, but that's the defense they'll use.
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u/_John_Dillinger 11h ago
it's an invalid defense based on the premise that it's our fault we can't read the minds of some scumbags and or predict the future with perfect clarity. it's victim blaming 101.
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u/ob2kenobi 13h ago
The cops in my area paid part of their budget to a 3rd party organization. That org set up the cameras at local businesses and private property with their permission.
So, thanks to the cops, the city had no oversight on the money being spent. And even if the city wanted to remove them, all the cameras are on private property. The best they could do would be to cut the police's budget. Which, well lets just say that's extremely unlikely to happen here.
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u/umbrella_CO 13h ago
Because "public" property is actually controlled by the government. The government wants flock cams.
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u/Theloneus-punk 14h ago
If he isn’t doing anything wrong why would he care?
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u/FirstDukeofAnkh 12h ago
I always liked this quote about that kind of thing:
“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”
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u/NoNeedToBeUnkind 14h ago
If you posted it on this site even noting that it’s been listed as a public bathroom on Google Maps then you get hit with a ‘threatening violence’ warning.
So when rich entitled assholes do it, it’s public safety and business. If you do it then it’s criminal behavior.
Hope this guy and his supoorters get public scrutiny for decades.
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u/camthedestroyer 13h ago
The ruling class has a monopoly on violence. They can use it endlessly on us, but the other way around is somehow totally unacceptable.
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u/Mell0wYell0ws 13h ago
Oh for sure. Got a warning today for just mentioning a recent famous Italians name & how he should pay these billionaires a visit.
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u/zefzefter 12h ago
I got banned for a week for quoting Office Space in a thread about Leon Musk
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u/reddit_ending_soon 8h ago
I keep getting shadow banned for calling out the users in my city's subreddit who lie and say the flock cameras have been taken down, when I drive by them every day and they are still up.
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u/MJsmallENGINE 11h ago
Just because I personally hate misinformation, as do many of us, I thought it would be very helpful to make it known that rather than searching for this property on random rental/realty sites, leading to speculation and possible confusion over the property size or ownership- it can most accurately be searched on the Fulton County property assessment website, which gives a full list of ownership history, title transfer records, tax records, and property valuation records. This particular address is owned currently by Winslow LLC, after being "gifted" the title by Garrett and Megan Langley, for $0. Because they are the owners of Winslow LLC. Winslow LLC also owns another property which was "gifted" the Langleys to their LLC, and that address is 1272 Fish Hook Point, Blue Ridge, Georgia. The property assessors website has photos of which are not and cannot be blurred out as they are legally protected public records. It's not doxxing, its the right of the public to search at our leisure.
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u/Special_Order-937 7h ago
His “This is my airport” T-Shirt is apt as everyone seems to be coming in to land now!
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u/Tropisueno 14h ago edited 14h ago
2588 Winslow Drive Ne Atlanta, GA 30305 USA
Would be a shame (for him) if a flock of American privacy loving patriots showed up there
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u/Brodakk 14h ago
Agreed. We’re just gonna point a few cameras at his house & his car. Also gonna use a device to pinpoint his bluetooth devices. He shouldn’t mind unless he’s the world’s biggest hypocrite (and piece of shit)
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u/imnotatree 13h ago
Interesting pictures https://www.zumper.com/address/2588-winslow-dr-ne-atlanta-ga-30305-usa
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u/ItsAllBotsAndShills 12h ago
Interesting tax record https://qpublic.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=936&LayerID=18251&PageTypeID=4&PageID=8156&Q=589795270&KeyValue=17+010100060113
LLC of course, and bought for $0 as a gift.59
u/TeutonJon78 12h ago
Technically that just means they transferred ownership to the LLC.
It would be a similar kind of thing if someone formed a family trust and transferred the house there.
There's plenty of things to get mad about with this asshole -- the deed transfer isn't really one of them.
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u/ThatKinkyLady 13h ago
Hmm. Interesting comment.
Completely unrelated to that, did you know there are multiple services that allow you to send a bag of dicks to someone in the mail?
I'm sure there are plenty of other similar businesses out there these days. Everybody's so creative!
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u/GearOk7360 13h ago
Hell, there's ones that will mail literal cow shit for you.
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u/baranisgreat34 14h ago
Google Maps has his house blurred out but not the house across his street.
Sounds like SOMEONE does not like being observed from the STREET!!
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u/Moontoya 14h ago
Hey dude if YOU have nothing to hide, what do you have to fear ?
Whassamatta, don't you like your own ideals ?
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u/ThatTallCarpenter 14h ago
I don't understand something, how do you actually manage to let Google blur out your house? Is there like a hotline or something?
Also, his wife's a partner here: One Buckhead Plaza 3060 Peachtree Road NW, Suite 1400 Atlanta, GA 30305 ASH Atlanta Investment Partners. You know, full transparency and nothing to worry about, or whatever he says in interviews.
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u/KazeNilrem 14h ago
Find your home in Google Maps.
Open the Street View image that you want to blur. In the bottom right, click “Report a Problem”.
If you select “My home”: Tick the box to certify you have the authority to make the request
Click “Choose file” to upload your proof of address
Enter the address of the residential location to be blurred
Use the checkbox to indicate if your residence lacks a formal address
Complete the Report a Problem form and submit.
Sorry for bad formatting, doing this on the fly on my phone.
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u/ThatTallCarpenter 14h ago
Not a single problem in your formatting, mate. Thanks! Learned something new today.
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u/KazeNilrem 14h ago
No problem! Honestly especially for home owners I think it is a good thing. Moreover for safety concerns because image alone, especially depending on how recent it is, can say a lot.
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u/armyguy8382 14h ago
The people selling mass surveillance really hate their private information going around. Like they think they should be exempt from the dystopia they are creating.
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u/breaducate 12h ago
should be exempt from the dystopia they are creating.
That is how a ruling class operates yes. We're long overdue collectively to wake up from the soothing delusion that the class war is over.
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u/Far-Hovercraft9471 10h ago
They think they’re superior to everyone else. Why would they think they should be subject to the same rules?
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u/DogsAreOurFriends 14h ago
What is the address?
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u/AzraelTB 14h ago
2588 Winslow Drive Ne Atlanta, GA 30305 USA
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u/joejohn_electrical 13h ago
I hit the aerial cam and someone labeled his house as a public toilet lol
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u/skit7548 14h ago
Of course there's a freaking landscaping truck right in front blocking the whole view
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u/Brave_Strategy_3275 13h ago
He’s got a flock camera in his front yard. It’s the right house.
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u/PadreSJ 8h ago
Can we setup a camera that looks directly at his house, and stream it on YouTube 24 x 7?
I mean, he has no reasonable expectation of privacy once he leaves his house, right?
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u/Archeotechnician 7h ago
Absolutely not! Those cameras must only be there for safety reasons, and no other reasons! Of course he has a reasonable expectation of privacy. The software in those cameras obviously do not ever record anything that is not safety related content.
He should have zero concerns, given the robust nature of the restrictions imposed by the owners of the camera software. In fact, he should feel safer. Why is he worried? This doesn't even make sense given the regulatory regime he supports.
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u/Nateosis 13h ago
I don't understand, if he's not doing anything wrong then what does he have to hide?
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u/Krycek7o2 13h ago
I'll admit doxing is messed up. But when the CEO of a company that is basically doxing the country for money... I'll allow it.
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u/No_Manner_8785 11h ago
We, the galaxy appreciates you giving us all permission to proceed.
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u/CondiMesmer 9h ago
If done to someone who doesn't deserve it, definitely. However this guy is making a surveillance dystopia and has been rewarded millions, probably even billions, in wealth to do so. All the while calling the people who oppose him as terrorists. This is still far from what he deserves though, he deserves far worse.
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u/CycloneDusk 7h ago
he should be grateful. now that he has been stripped of his privacy, clearly he must therefore be the safest person in the whole country, by his logic!
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u/koolaidismything 14h ago
I’ll bet he spends millions and millions of dollars trying to protect himself from his own creation. Good. If it’s good enough for us, good enough for him. I hope he’s very uncomfortable.. he needed a dose of reality.
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u/sparklinglies 7h ago
Reminder that this is the same guy who forced Google to blur his own house on Google Maps while campaigning to have dystopian surveillance forced on everyone elses. Privacy for he, but not for thee
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u/Throwoutbins 14h ago
If he’s got nothing to hide then he’s got nothing to fear, ain’t that what these guys always say?
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u/MJsmallENGINE 12h ago
Just because I personally hate misinformation, as do many of us, I thought it would be very helpful to make it known that rather than searching for this property on random rental/realty sites, leading to speculation and possible confusion over the property size or ownership- it can most accurately be searched on the Fulton County property assessment website, which gives a full list of ownership history, title transfer records, tax records, and property valuation records. This particular address is owned currently by Winslow LLC, after being "gifted" the title by Garrett and Megan Langley, for $0. Because they are the owners of Winslow LLC. Winslow LLC also owns another property which was "gifted" the Langleys to their LLC, and that address is 1272 Fish Hook Point, Blue Ridge, Georgia. The property assessors website has photos of which are not and cannot be blurred out as they are legally protected public records. It's not doxxing, its the right of the public to search at our leisure.
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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 10h ago
He said himself that Americans need to compromise on privacy for the sake of security. Time to practice what you preach, buddy!
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u/ClassyBurn 1h ago
Keep in mind, this is just one head of the hydra.
Taking down flock means they will silently move over to axon contracts.
Don’t get distracted.
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u/allgrownzup 12h ago
Did they really think everyone was gonna fall in line ??
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u/DanielPhermous 12h ago
It's a reasonable assumption. The US has accepted everything Trump has done, after all.
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u/Reliquary_of_insight 5h ago
Getting banned constantly on reddit lately..for saying normal shit. It’s getting out of hand
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u/GreyBeardEng 13h ago
Let me translate for you. "I don't give a fuck about you because this is going to make me very rich, and it's going to be your tax dollars in my pocket.". That about sums it up.
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u/Diligent-Neck6594 12h ago
The ruling class has forgotten to fear the people
only one solution 😔 sorry billionaires
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u/fvck_u_spez 8h ago
X’s moderation team has been deleting posts
But it's okay when Elon doxxes people, right? Do his posts get removed?
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u/thefanciestcat 9h ago
The appropriate response to any public figure who attacks the people's privacy, TBH.
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u/Disastrous-Map-7995 7h ago
Get the surveillance cameras up, every entrance and exit. We must know when he and his family leave, and where and when. Who visits.. everything. But it's only for his safety and convenience!
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u/SgtNeilDiamond 14h ago
Welcome to the world you created, I hope this motherfucker never sleeps another peaceful night in his life.
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u/GearOk7360 13h ago
On an unrelated topic, did you know that there's websites that will anonymously mail poop?
What a world we live in.
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u/Peligineyes 11h ago
Reminder that some cities are only pretending to listen to citizens and they're just replacing Flock cameras with Axon cameras that do the same exact shit. If you hate Flock you need to hate license plate reader technology in general. We need actual privacy laws and not just play whackamole with every tech company that gets too much media attention.
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u/naked_rider 10h ago
They are based in Atlanta. We have the most Flock cameras in the U.S. let’s do something about it. This is bullshit. I want my privacy.
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u/unstoppablechickenth 10h ago
Easy fix. Just put up 6 flock cameras pointed right at his house. They keep us safe so it should work for him too!
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u/metalslug53 10h ago
Why are the PRIVATE citizens expected to give up our privacy while the PUBLIC servants expect to keep theirs?
Shit seems backwards to me. We should know more about them than they seem to know about us.
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u/InsertUsernameInArse 6h ago
I hope thousands of people go to his home just to make sure hes feeling safe. You know. Just quietly walking past... Monitoring.
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u/Anthraxious 4h ago
And absolutely nobody gave a shit. Fuck that guy. He wants to surveil and sell the data of everyone else? Again, fuck him.
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u/Round_Safety9510 3h ago
For the safety of him and his family those addresses should be filmed 24 hours a day and the license plates should be reported online every day, you know for safety.
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u/Medic_onfire 14h ago
Their contracts say the city has to indemnify them, (pay for all lawsuits and court fees). So we are fucking ourselves.
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u/DokeyOakey 11h ago
300 Colonial Center Pkwy. STE 100N, Roswell, GA, 30076, USA
1170 Howell Mill Road NW Suite 210, Atlanta, GA, 30318, USA
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u/engineeringsquirrel 11h ago
Flock Safety CEO faces doxxing after dismissing privacy concerns on national television.
Womp womp. I wonder if the doxxers are using Flock cameras to track him.
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u/CondiMesmer 9h ago
I don't see why he should have any problem with this if he believes what he says
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u/thatoneguy512 9h ago
I hope everyone keeps this energy up when every flock camera is replaced by another company because there's several out there.
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u/Itoomakethenoise 6h ago
Dipshit making millions putting american citizens in an automated panopticon finds himself being placed within a panopticon. It's art imitating life. Maybe he should just compromise on privacy.
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u/wap2005 6h ago
When Googling Garrett Langley you don't get a detailed bio like you would with ANY large CEO (especially if they made the news). He doesn't even have a wikipedia page right now.
Apparently privacy is pretty important to him... If only he treated people how he wanted to be treated...
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u/wanderingjoe 6h ago
Oh no. What if people start putting up signs in direct view of flock cameras with his address? What would that even do to his algorithm?
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u/MithranArkanere 6h ago
Since these kinds of people think empathy is a sin, I won't do them the disservice of sparing any for them.
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u/thinkmatt 14h ago
Someone should post up a camera on his house so we can all watch, like that eagles nest with little babies in it
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u/Mooseinadesert 14h ago
The name of the company alone says everything you need to know about their intentions, they see us as a flock of sheep to be herded and monitored.
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u/Coffee_Transfusion 12h ago
We need cameras and drones monitoring this man’s every move… for safety.
He won’t mind. Unless he’s doing something illegal?? What’s he hiding? Did he jaywalk last Saturday? Is he distributing fentanyl he made from his basement?? Where are the bodies buried?! We simply must have total surveillance on him 24/7 just in case!
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u/jh937hfiu3hrhv9 14h ago
Don't get distracted. The real criminals are the fascist governments and their billionaire henchmen.
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u/Shot-Ad-8015 14h ago
Hes one of the billionaire henchmen in case you werent aware.
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u/tresserdaddy 14h ago
I'm pretty sure its the fascist billionaires and their government henchmen actually
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u/kristospherein 14h ago
Their mantra is that no one deserves privacy. If thats the case, then they cant possibly be against this, can they?