The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley.

“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

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    Hey won’t be gullitined and instead he will just face prison time and have his mass survelence system dismantled and the rest of his assets seized and redistributed

    A fair and just compromise imho

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    I’m amazed at how their concern for our safety allows them to do all sorts of heinous shit for profit our safety.

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    For his part, Langley has said that state regulators should “pass bills that make [the illegal use of Flock data] a criminal offense.”

    No one trusts the police to genuinely enforce anything that could impact themselves.

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    I think the window of compromise has long since passed. Flock as a company went in with a guns blazing, anti-privacy, record everything, give the information to anyone style business style, and then chose to double and triple down on the style when the controversy/outcry first started. Once you’ve hit the stage where there’s people starting to protest and riot and cities have started to go out of their way to ban the product and retract contracts due to the fact that they’re concerned about public support. It’s too late. That’s a fire that’s not being put out.

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      I propose they compromise by going out of business after deleting all data and removing their cameras from everywhere.

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    Fuck off with compromise. take your shit and get out no one wants you in case the guillotine wasn’t fucking clear

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    What compromise? Where’s your warrant to search our lives, our comings and goings? Rich people don’t have to deal with this harassment.

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    We’re already in the safest time for petty crime ever, and flock won’t help with America’s real issue of corporate crime. Safety will not be affected.

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    I think one of the problems that encompasses the flock debate besides the privacy issues is the relationship that the police have with people in the United States. Most police view people as a threat and if you look at the police training they teach them to be extremely violent. During simple traffic stops most police are on edge and have an attitude like they might be violent with you. I’m just talking about the general atmosphere- I’m not even getting into all of the examples where police have killed people for no reason, falsified information to arrest innocent people, and generally abused their power.

    Did police want to wear body cams or did they want to continue without accountability? Police have a responsibility and have taken an oath. They should be required to have cameras.

    In a society where all of its parts work together towards the same goal, ALPRs would not be a problem. In the US this surveillance is very worrisome.

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    “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

    -Ben Franklin

    In other words: Fuck you, Flock.

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    Remember, it’s Axon as well, and many more companies. and a major contrbuter who has linked in with all of these creepy services is Amazon and has the largest surveillence network in residential areas not just on travel corridors comprised of Ring doorbell cameras tied in to all of these systems.

    Flock seems like the sacrificial lamb, to me. They are in your face, ther cameras are obvious, and their CEO runs his mouth so much everyone hates him.

    It’s like how Elon can’t keep his mouth shut, but Ellison far more dangerous and nearly as rich.