Your town pays for the cameras, Flock double dips and will sell to pretty much anyone that pays.
So when a city actually caves and says they’re not paying and to take them down, Flock doesn’t want to, they’re fine paying the operating costs, because that makes government agencies (and anyone else) more of a reason to buy in.
This is America, corporations are going to want that data, like they want everything else.
People get hung up on local governments taking bribes to let Flock in, but the real way to convince local politicians, is to make them understand (or even just feel like) Flock is grifting them and the bribes should be 1,000x higher.
At least make it more expensive, we need to start fighting like we’re corporations, and start exploring every vector that increases their costs to kill their businesses.
They get local tax dollars to pay for installs…
But they’re not exclusive contracts.
Your town pays for the cameras, Flock double dips and will sell to pretty much anyone that pays.
So when a city actually caves and says they’re not paying and to take them down, Flock doesn’t want to, they’re fine paying the operating costs, because that makes government agencies (and anyone else) more of a reason to buy in.
This is America, corporations are going to want that data, like they want everything else.
People get hung up on local governments taking bribes to let Flock in, but the real way to convince local politicians, is to make them understand (or even just feel like) Flock is grifting them and the bribes should be 1,000x higher.
At least make it more expensive, we need to start fighting like we’re corporations, and start exploring every vector that increases their costs to kill their businesses.