FLOCK is not alone, of course, they are just the most well-known company building the surveillance state. When Every Streetlight Becomes A Surveillance Tower
For years, Americans were told that the greatest privacy battles would happen online. The debate centered around social media, smartphones, and internet tracking. Few imagined that one of the most controversial surveillance technologies would instead appear quietly on neighborhood streets, mounted atop poles at busy intersections and neighborhood entrances.
Today, those poles have become a flashpoint in a much larger debate over technology, artificial intelligence, and the future relationship between citizens and government.
Read the whole, disturbing thing, and the few signs that people have had enough of the creeping technology and are pushing back. (Hat tip to MaddMedic.)
And you vocabulary word of the day (Courtesy of Merriam-Webster): Panoptican
a circular prison built with cells arranged radially so that a guard at a central position can see all the prisoners
The solution to most of these surveillance cameras is simple. All it takes is the will to act and if your smart preparations for remaining anonymous.
ReplyDeleteSadly most Flock contracts specify the local authority paying to.install the cameras is.responsible for replacement if damaged or vandalized. Which means you taxpayers are on the hook for them.
ReplyDeleteThe answer is to get your local authority not to enter into contract with Flock or not to renew contract.
LOL! You apparently believe that politicians...at any level...give a rats ass about what us peons think, believe or want. Newsflash! They don't.
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