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Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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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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[–] 117 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Interesting that he’s framing it as a balance between privacy and safety instead of privacy and security.

Flock cameras haven’t been proven to make anyone safer.

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  • [–] 6 points 12 hours ago

    It's a false dichotomy, pure and simple. They try to frame it in a way to make their invasion of your privacy seem as if it's in your best interest, even though the opposite is true. Typical fascist rhetoric.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    Yeah what even is the argument for that? Even if a crime is caught on one of these things they're still not making anyone safer. The crime still happened and that's the best case scenario where the crime is caught on tape. From what I've seen usually these things provide circumstantial evidence at best.

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