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Oh, /now/ they got it wrong?

FLUCK FLOCK! And the perverts who exploit their positions & technology to harass, stalk & abuse women (& girls!) Must be consequences.

These changes don’t affect ICE’s ability to log onto Flock and prey on undocumented immigrants. The Flock cameras have to be removed.

Let me guess: the majority (if not all) the perpetrators using Flock to stalk exes are......conservative wyt men in law enforcement roles. See results below & these articles: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... , www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne... This is my surprised face. 🙄

The fix is to break up the company like it's a monopoly. Fire it's leadership and install a new company. Oh wait sill me this is 2026 in the USA we don't follow laws anymore.

Look at how the NSA protects this type of data. You don't let just anyone use it. It has to be someone with a high level security clearance, who is aware they will go to jail if they abuse that access.

We all hate on ICE but seem to forget that too many cops are the OG a$$holes.

So they’re admitting they got the fascism part wrong? I didn’t think they did, either. Fuck Flock.

That does nothing to address the issue that they're collecting data and selling it to whomever is willing to pay regardless of what their purpose is.

John Oliver played a video of a Flock executive saying the system was OK to use as long as the police were trained and ethical in its use. Like Flock is not responsible if police use the system to stalk current and ex spouses or romantic partners.

Tech Violence against women If you don't see it Look harder

We must never accept it as normal.

A citizen activist has pointed out that "flock cameras each contain 2-3 pounds of copper wire and 1-2 ounces of gold. Do with that information what you will." Wise words.

You got your whole business model wrong Flock. Go fuck yourselves.

Cops abusing their authority the second they have access to abusable power? Come on, that's the sort of shit that cops go to the academy for! Let's skip the part where "nobody could have predicted this," like we live in a country with police who aren't exclusively domestic abusers.

In these times, that flock exists is wrong.

Come to Alabama,it happens every minute of the day,cops are beyond corrupt in the south,get out and vote these local goons out of office

Mass surveillance cameras are incompatible with a free society, and they should be banned.

what has been surprising to learn is there are millions of these cameras installed & just not on street corners, private businesses have them too & there’s a whole line of interior cameras, if you watched John Oliver flock emps entertained themselves watching unsuspecting Chick-fil-a employees

No fucks given, shut them all down.

So, only after it became news.

In completely unrelated news, angle grinders are for sale at the hardware store

@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social SOMETHING MUST BE DONE TO REMOVE THESE FLOCK CAMERAS FROM OUR COUNTRY THEY ARE A THREAT TO OUR FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY AS ARE AI CENTERS STOP THEM!

Another POS CEO…

the average police officer can’t resist the urge to stalk and harass women.

Just get rid of them......................PERIOD!

Almost like Flock doesn't really care about all the damage they've done

I saw someone try to defend them saying that's not what they were MEANT for (which is BS anyway). Still. And? End user analysis is standard for any product. It's not hard to imagine this is what would happen. Of course they use it to stalk people and oppression. Read a damn book! #orwell

bsky.app/profile/shad...

We need to keep an eye on AXON too bsky.app/profile/blue...

Once again, North Carolina is all in on the flock cameras.

I bet $100 cops are also using flock to track miniskirts and tube tops. There's a pattern, I'm sure, but the victims are more diffuse. Flock needs to go.

Banning Flock camera 🤬 Soon criminals will access to flock camera. Law-abiding citizens will pay the price for lazy corrupted cops & Flock billionaire CEO! 🤬

Fk flock

Too late. When they show you they're capable of evil intentions, that's it.

Individual cops abusing the system is a distraction. The whole thing is an illegal, unregulated dragnet with local, state, and federal governments and corporations as customers, so all responsibility and FOIA requests for the surveillance machine they funded with our tax dollars can be avoided.

For every step you take back, they take two forward.

They were facing stalking lawsuits?

They're responding??? I find this amazing!!!

they wonder why women might avoid romantic partners in a predatory culture

Cops don’t need Flock to stalk. They learn that in the academy.

Maybe they should focus on making it not exist at all, or at the very least, not accessible to anyone without a warrant.

This needs to be addressed as the Church Committee addressed abuse by the CIA, NSA, FBI and IRS. The activity is the same, the players are different and in some ways more consequential.

i think the citizens will be adjusting their reporting strategy to address the problem too

This is Trump’s America. Vote Republican for more of the same.

They will never address the actual harms because the harms are what they make their money off of and curtailing those abuses will cost money to implement.

Flock is about profits not protecting our rights. The only true solution is forcing them and their end users to abide by very strict rules or even total elimination if citizens refuse to be spied on.

'Your name is Big Brother..'

🤬😤

My BFF is a WW who said she feels safer walking in her neighborhood with Flock cameras 📷

I my fucking stars someone needs to tell that shitbucket that they got more than just one thing wrong!

youll know when the CEO means it, because they will either dissolve the company or completely restructure it into something other than security cameras/data analysis

US Media: China is building a surveillance society the likes of which we've never seen! US Corp Govt:

They don't give a shit how it's used. They just don't want to lose all that money...

Instead, let's roll out updates using sledgehammers.

Of course it is focused on face-saving. They don't actually give a shit about people's privacy, they simply want more money. And they know Cops love being able to spy on people w/out a warrant, especially women they stalk.

Sounds like cutting down cameras is the right approach. They need to all be destroyed.

The thing everyone knew was going to happen, because it always does, happened. The people who knew it would happen, but wanted it to happen because they would personality benefit from it: "Oopsies."

This whole concept SEEMS like a good idea until you take into account Human Nature. Its right there you can see how badly this will end.

all of these mass surveillance tools need to go.

It's clear that's always been their intent (p25 & history as guides). They make up the excuses for it as they go. Vile.

Right. Because Flock feels the only ones who should be abusing the system and data are Flock.

It seems to me the nation is rolling out their own updates to flock cameras...with a hammer. This isn't just govt surveillance either, private businesses are putting these up. A local corporation put them up in their employee parking lots and no one seems to know why. It's too much.

The people who “got this one wrong” are the politicians who turned their constituents over to these tech predators.

Too little too late. Chop em down boys.

JFC

Of course he did he was found red-handed and now wants to keep his head and company...Fuck him!!!

This is a pr puff piece. Flock itself is the problem don’t write lies for this horrible company.

Reminder Flock had a camera pointed at a little girls gymnastic for a shareholder demonstration

Even more abuse could be on the way surveilling innocent citizens for other purposes. We have entered into the world that a movie predicted when everyone is being surveilled.

Well, guess we keep taking care of the problem one at a time then. Their funeral.

Flock should take down all their cameras, and shove them up their asses. Fuck surveillance state fascist losers!

Yeah… back in the late 80’s, my aunt tried to escape an abusive CPD officer. His pig brothers down in Saint Louis nabbed her and brought her back to him. Flock made it easier but the problem has always been there and won’t go away without accountability.

The new America! A camera in your bathroom and ICE shock gloves to help keep you in line. Let us be thankful we have commerce... Buy more. Buy more now. Buy more and be happy. THX-1138

Oh, OK then. As long as there’s a software patch, I trust you completely.

Flock Off. That is all...

Expanding the surveillance state, you can check to see how many are in your area: maps.deflock.org?lat=39.8283&...

PR For when the truth just won’t do.

If you dated a cop what did you expect?

Garrett Langley is a terrorist.

Why not just get rid of it?

Hey Flock, you got everything wrong. Stop spying on people.

Big brother is becoming a Big bother.

So we have found a few LE who should not be LE and that means the cameras are a bad idea? IMHO, getting cops out of traffic and into community service is a way better use of my tax $$

The only update they need can be delivered with a reciprocating saw.

Flock is an abuser.

Why do "We the People" have to put up with things we all hate? We all hate this. It needs to go.

They're surveillance cameras. They only way they won't be abused is if they're never installed

Keep abuses secret and there will be no problem!

Doesn't address the fact they run an Android version that's 8 years EOL, thus are homing beacons for exploits to anyone with knowledge to do so.

And we're at the point where we have to surveil ourselves 24/7 to prove otherwise. This scenario played out locally not too long ago, and just the other day with those ICE goons. We all need to wear bodycams I guess.

btw acab

This should be a severe crime in a sane world.

Like this will stop them 🙄

It’s not the first time in recent history. This is exactly what happens when civil servants of average intellectual ability get their hands on a hyper-capable toy. Combating terrorism and crime: 0, boredom and abuse: 100.

Sounds like the problem might actually be…cops.

What about the officers abusing their power? Shouldn’t we remove them? This is the biggest problem with ICE. Absolutely no accountability! 

#DeFlock‼️ @deflock.org

I think that Flock has flew the coup. Now the new abuse of power story - can you imagine these ICE fucks using the 'Comply' electric gloves to torture folks? Something that doesn't leave marks like fists, clubs, and bullets do. They can't even serve drinkable water. So wrong.

paintball or focus the sun on them

I think they need to make another update: they need to make their cameras impervious to shotgun pellets.

They're only doing something right now to fix their PR. This is a typical corpo move, expect them to roll the changes back silently. Flock isn't the only company that does this, Axon (the bodycam company) make ALPRs too, though Flock is the only company that has faced backlash as of now.

Now they are stalking contractors at Lowe’s Home Improvement FFS.

Kind of got to expect that from a company that wants everyone to associate increased surveillance with greater safety!

Eff those mfrs.

The only update those cameras need...

Flock having data collected at all is the fundamental problem. Even without "abuse" it is wrong.

Not enough.

Flock is how billionaires plan to keep their money bsky.app/profile/ched...

History's speedrun of repeats continues. www.wired.com/story/sectio... I'll give it about a month before no one remembers this.

Funny how they change their tune after harming people. They jam through their "innovation", make the CEO very wealthy, then pretend to be concerned. I don't believe a word he says

No, it's a Flock problem too. These things should be banned. ij.org/dozens-of-in...

“Oopsie”

Seems it's time to never date a cop.....maybe when women start thinking that way, men might stop abusing those cameras or spend their lives alone.

the police have already abused it

And, it's not just that they are using it for nefarious purposes, it's that they ALWAYS WILL use it for nefarious purposes. There is absolutely no way for a system of mass surveillance to exist without it being exploited by bad people.

Duh

If this CEO had any common sense, he'd completely shut the company down, but I guess that good old ravenous American greed just CAN'T let him do the right thing.

So the fact this became a big story sounds like there’s a sizeable number of the guy population who never moved on from their exes and would stalk them given half a chance. Feels like a new kind of weird I didn’t know existed, this and the dudes who think about Ancient Rome daily. 🤨

being able to track anyone without a warrant isnt a bug its flock's primary feature..