Legal Victory Forces Cities to Consider Releasing Flock Surveillance Camera Recordings
By
pavel_lishin
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
The article discusses a legal victory against mass surveillance technology, specifically focusing on Flock Safety's license plate reading cameras used by cities for pervasive visual data collection. The author celebrates a legal setback for Flock that has forced cities to potentially release surveillance recordings, highlighting the importance of this precedent in challenging surveillance state practices. The piece expresses schadenfreude over cities' rapid retreat from using Flock's technology and hopes for financial damage to the surveillance vendor.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledThere is so little good news on the mass surveillance that every win ought to be celebrated.
The cities affected by the setback to Flock using license plate reading as a pretext for pervasive visual data hauling seem not to be willing to bet on an appeal succeeding.
Enjoy the schadenfreude of the rapid retreat.
If we are really lucky, Flock will suffer irreparable financial damage.
This is a tale of Flock cameras, license plate readers, and the surveillance state.
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