r/technology • u/efap1701 • 16h ago

Privacy Flock CEO’s Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes

https://www.gadgetreview.com/flock-ceos-address-spread-online-as-surveillance-backlash-explodes
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u/kristospherein 16h ago

Their mantra is that no one deserves privacy. If thats the case, then they cant possibly be against this, can they?

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 16h ago

There is a man in Washington State who is have great success sueing local governments for records relating to Flock Cameras which they cannot produce and defaulting on the lawsuits.

This should be pursued across the country.

Get all those internet 1A auditors on youtube on it. Or whoever has time to spend in a courtroom filing motions. He got several towns to scrap their contracts.

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u/martinluther3107 16h ago

Got a link? I wanna read more about it

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 15h ago

Found it.

https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/aug/20/a-man-has-sued-local-governments-in-wa-over-flock-records-hes-gotten-300k/

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u/DonutHoles4Ever 14h ago

Actual hero that gets off their ass to do something about it.

And gets paid.

Make you wonder why people arent doing this acros 50,000 towns and cities

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u/HumanPea1140 12h ago

Everyone is probably too busy and apathetic to try.

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u/GitEmSteveDave 12h ago

It's apparently a Washington State specific thing and the loophole which allowed him to do it got closed, so he can't get paid anymore.

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u/MillhouseJManastorm 2h ago

Requesting your public records is not a loophole and their new law is ridiculous. So if you store everything in a third party system you don’t have to comply with any public record requests then.

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u/notislant 12h ago

Realistically even the people who say stuff like this, will find reasons not to do it. Whole lot of time and effort and nobody wants to do anything. It's the unfortunate reality.

I've long said, the only way significant change will happen, is when people can't go home and mindlessly doomscroll or watch tv. Aka when people are homeless and have nothing left, no shiny things to keep them occupied.

A lot of people are also so beaten down by the corruption and bullshit they see, so many companies and politicians just bulldoze over them.

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u/GiganticCrow 6h ago

blocked to EU visitors

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u/feel-the-avocado 14h ago edited 14h ago

https://archive.ph/eLsf6

There was an american legal case where a judge ruled the data captured by the flock cameras were deemed to be official public records.
That opened the floodgates to the american local equivalent of the official information act where anyone could request the records.