Turns out »it’s on a public road« stops being a magic privacy waiver when police can reconstruct a month of your movements with a few clicks. Flock sold dragnet surveillance as a camera network, and a federal judge finally called it what it is: indiscriminate mass surveillance.
I made a video that is tangentially related to this a week and a half ago. There isn’t a ton of reporting on it, but Flock is losing a ton of cash thanks to local privacy movements.
Just in September they lost 100+ contracts. They’ve lost almost 400 since June, in 36 US states.
Seeing the response is the first thing that’s given me a flicker of hope since the Patriot Act passed.
Turns out »it’s on a public road« stops being a magic privacy waiver when police can reconstruct a month of your movements with a few clicks. Flock sold dragnet surveillance as a camera network, and a federal judge finally called it what it is: indiscriminate mass surveillance.
I made a video that is tangentially related to this a week and a half ago. There isn’t a ton of reporting on it, but Flock is losing a ton of cash thanks to local privacy movements.
Just in September they lost 100+ contracts. They’ve lost almost 400 since June, in 36 US states.
Seeing the response is the first thing that’s given me a flicker of hope since the Patriot Act passed.