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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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[–] 32 points 6 days ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Like, I'm here for making it a crime for a cop to spy on someone without legal and professional justification, but I really just don't see why we should let them have the tools to do it.

    Also, I'm also worried about the legal uses of these things. A lot of our rights come down to the adversarial nature of interactions between the ordinary person and the state's capacity to inflict violence. Surveillance without a warrant is unchecked police power.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago

    Right. The root cause here is that companies are allowed to collect stupid amounts of information about private citizens - and then sell that information to a government or abuse it for their own purposes under the cover of an EULA of 'we will collect [various information] for business purposes'. If I can't apply for a job without agreeing to 3 EULAs that sign away my personal information, then I'm not agreeing to them; I'm being held hostage by them.

    If flock was not allowed to store PII data (and PII was extended to cover location history, nearby devices, and a few other things), then their business model would evaporate.

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