(The terrorist allegations are from an interview December of last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357850 )
I don't care who operates flock; it's being used to do government surveillance at scale to avoid privacy laws.
As dumb as it is that we've invited a corporation to spy with government approval, I suspect that less formal but still ubiquitous surveillance is coming for you, too, unless your government actively prevents it.
Americans need to wake up and realize they are the exception not the rule when it comes to the normalization of a surveillance state
I suspect that you underestimate how captured America's politics are on a relative scale.
That is NOT what the USA is, at the moment. Very happy not to live there, or go there in any capacity.
We used to think of ourselves as gradually getting better. Turns out that all that accomplished was to encourage resentment, and we finally got tired of pretending otherwise. I dunno if we can ever get back the illusion of improvement, since it will be clear for a very long time just how powerful the urge to cower is. I hope it's soon enough for you to come visit some day, because we do also have a lot of virtues, but for the moment it's not safe for the inhabitants, much less the strangers.
“life altering”? Oh so like a women and her kids being held at gun point while face down on the hot tarmac of a parking lot cause your stupid ai cameras got the wrong car.
https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2026/04/17/dunwoody-floc...
How did a Jewish Community Center end up allowing FLOCK to access its security cameras?
Pool and Gymnastics seem like sensitive places unless PEDO.
I'd argue Flock doesn't exist if the government for private surveillance didn't exist.
An explanation rather than an excuse. But it's not entirely surprising that they would sign up for a service that might help them catch offenders.
From wikipedia, section Misconceptions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_credit_system
They have attempted many times to create a credit score system like the US but have failed to centralize anything like the US has. The US credit score system is also much more pervasive and can sometimes determine whether or not you're allowed to buy a house.
Separately there was an attempt to build a "social credit" system that is only applied to political and business leaders. Basically anyone who holds some sort of power in society. It's not a way to control regular people. This also failed to ever come to anything that's truly nationalized.
You pay taxes? Vote. Should be mandatory, and the government should make it extremely easy to do.
That means if only politicians that are savvy enough to get campaign donations, air time, etc; that claim to represent me on more important issues than cameras, are the only ones on the ballot for me to choose from, and they all like cameras, I don't get much of a say in cameras.
From a practical standpoint, how would that even work? Would the politican call you and everyone in their district before each vote and record it? Or would every bill that comes up have a poll?