Cops are human beings. Despite constantly pretending they’re on a higher plane (see also: Thin Blue Line, etc.), they’re just as fallible as anyone else. Especially now. This occupation is self-selecting. Righting wrongs is rarely the main draw. It’s almost always the immense of amount of power that comes coupled with nearly zero accountability. There […]

Flock Safety doesn’t seem to care about anyone. Not its customers, not those captured by its cameras, not even the legislators trying to find a balance between safety and privacy. Flock started out by pitching its cameras — with built-in license plate readers — to the kind of people with money to blow on unproven […]

Flock Safety’s reputation is in tatters, thanks in large part to its own actions. First sold as a high-tech add-on for homeowners’ associations and gated communities, it soon spread to law enforcement agencies and the cities that employ them. Promising plenty of access to an existing network of privately-owned cameras, Flock insinuated — if not […]

Faculty members David Palumbo-Liu and Stephen Monismith argue that Flock cameras on campus undermine privacy.

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Tim MacKenzie argues that Stanford's use of Flock threatens the public safety of community members.

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All the people who have always brushed off concerns about surveillance tech, please come get your kids. And then let someone else raise them. Lots of people are fine with mass surveillance because they believe the horseshit spewed by the immediate beneficiaries of this tech: law enforcement agencies that claim every encroachment on your rights […]

Surveillance technology vendors, federal agencies, and wealthy private donors have long helped provide local law enforcement “free” access to surveillance equipment that bypasses local oversight. The result is predictable: serious accountability gaps and data pipelines to other entities, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), that expose millions of people to harm. The cost of…

Bei Vidoop hab ich gerade von dem neuen OpenID Plugin für Flock gelesen. Das Plugin ist eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen Vidoop, MySpace und Flock und basiert auf dem Know-How des IDIB (Identity in the Browser) Plugins für den Firefox. Ähnlich wie bei IDIB für Firefox kann man auch bei der Flock Version mehrere OpenIDs voreinstellen. Neu...