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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[–] [S] 331 points 1 month ago* (8 children)

There should be no compromising our right to privacy and these cameras need to go. Fuck Flock and their cash grab.

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  • [–] 243 points 1 month ago (20 children)

    How about we compromise by saying remove them all, give back the money spent, delete all data and in exchange you don't get the treatments due one helping enable orwillian levels of suvelance

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  • [–] 125 points 1 month ago (7 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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    [–] 95 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I like the sounds of this. Here's an offer:

    Fuck off, and the guillotine gets put away.

    Everybody wins!

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    [–] 69 points 1 month ago

    The compromise is that he lives

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    [–] 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's wild, because when I was a kid, there was this huge conservative talking point about how trading freedom for security was bad.

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    [–] 48 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 48 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    And the zombies said "all we want to do is eat your brains, maybe we can compromise..."

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    [–] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Compromise: Quit now, and keep your head.

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    [–] 44 points 1 month ago

    Compromise offer: you stop spying on us and we'll stop breaking your cameras.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    There is absolutely no reason to track people everywhere they go. We were fine before these things.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    The more you learn about Flock, the scarier it gets. They have FULL profiles built on EVERY american that has flock cameras nearby. All your shopping, driving, financial habits are tracked. They know who all your friends and family are and how often you visit, they track your vehicles specific identifiable features like bumper damage, stickers, faded paint, etc. All of that is a complete violation of the 4th amendment and all these companies need to be sued.

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    If you get rid of your right to privacy, you get rid of your right to safety.

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    [–] 38 points 1 month ago

    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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  • [–] 38 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 37 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    Here's my compromise: we give the Flock CEO twenty to life instead of sentencing him to public flaying like he deserves.

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    [–] 34 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Safety for who, exactly, Garrett? Because the common people aren't safer with this overreach

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    [–] 33 points 1 month ago

    No, Garrett, we don't negotiate with surveillance states.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 31 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I can guarantee this has been said already, but the compromise is simple; no flock cameras (or comparable tech) anywhere.

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    [–] 29 points 1 month ago

    Okay, here’s the compromise: you close everything down, and we don’t feed you to a hungry business of ferrets.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 28 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Anyone who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserves neither.

    Garrett can get fucked.

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    [–] 28 points 1 month ago

    The compromise is you scrap every camera, or we do.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago

    Eat shit, Garrett.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    Fuck these clowns. Their “compromise” is finding some way to quiet the bad press while continuing to do what they’ve been doing.

    “We’ll stop putting our cameras where people don’t want them and just put then where our clients want them.”

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    [–] 25 points 1 month ago

    *We didn't invent police abuse! We actually shined a light on it and pointed it out"

    Fuck right the hell off with this shit. You don't get to sell your panopticon to a group that routinely abuses every tool they have, and feign ignorance in defense of the results.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago

    Compromise dez nuts

    Fucking fascist.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago

    Okay, here's the compromise: disband your company and we'll put away the guillotines.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I call a guillotine a compromise.

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    [–] 23 points 1 month ago

    Here is your compromise. Shutter your company & we won't hang you.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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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    [–] 22 points 1 month ago

    He says as he continues to launch surveillance drones without asking anybody if they're okay with that...

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Tar and feathers are not expensive, and it's a hilarious thing to do to someone

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