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?”

The Washington Post recently identified 46 cases where police officers have been accused of using Flock technology for unauthorized purposes, including to stalk their wives, girlfriends, or exes.

After listening to an interview with one of the alleged victims, Langley told CBS News, “I apologize. It kills me that she went through that.” At the same time, he insisted, “I don’t think that Flock created police abuse. I think we’re the first company to ever shine a light on it and build the tools to find it.”

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[–] 1 point 9 hours ago

"We're at an impasse here, maybe we can compromise.

"You open up the door, and we'll all come on in and [take] your [g]ains!"

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago

    actionable call for violence

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  • [–] 30 points 22 hours ago

    Capitalists famously call for compromise when they're not facing existential resistance from the proletarian class. Time to give up on deflocking teehee

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  • [–] 9 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Don't forget that Axon, Genetec, and Motorola are also deploying the same thing nationwide while largely flying under the radar.

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  • [–] 5 points 17 hours ago

    Yeah flock is probably gonna be the sin eater or lightning rod for any social energy that culminates against surveillance. It'll get dismantled as a "concession", while the whole of the survellance apparatus trucks on unabated.

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  • [–] 8 points 18 hours ago*

    gui-better Your neck trade-offer gui-better Your cameras.

    Dude's name for overarching survalience is fucking Langley fedposting comic book shit.

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  • [–] 12 points 20 hours ago

    They can track a woman crossing states for reproductive rights; cops will have a man buying marijuana and traveling back to his dry state, dead to rights. Nobody wants this, except for the fascists creeps currently in power.

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  • [–] 11 points 20 hours ago

    I fear what a competent fascist state would be able to get away with. If i was them, i would be touting every petty theft solved within 24 hrs thanks to Flock.

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  • [–] 14 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    They're fucking called FLOCK. CAMERAS. The people writing the script for the Reality TV Show we're in gave up seasons ago.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    Okay. The compromise is you shut down all this creepy surveillance and hand over your company and you don't immediately go to prison for privacy violations

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  • [–] 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    the compromise is prison instead of guillotine

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  • [–] 18 points 23 hours ago

    Sounds great my dude. Now face the wall.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 day ago*

    I know it's lib shit, but Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have said, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Like idgaf about what the founders had to say, but aren't these assholes supposed to? I guess the american civic religion programming is finally good for something though, because by and large the people seem to agree as far as knocking down the surveillance apparatus goes

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I don't understand why you'd want to compromise. What the fuck do you care? Don't you have the regime on your side? You picked your side. There's no trust left in the institutions of America and you're trying to find some? While making life worse and being unpopular?

    What? Did Flock x Mamdani fall through?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago

    There has to be a more efficient way to give people free solar panels

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago

    Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions...

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