Flock CEO says drones are its fastest-growing business as it expands beyond license plate cameras (www.businessinsider.com)
from FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works to privacy@lemmy.ml on 27 Sep 19:35
https://sh.itjust.works/post/67421643

TLDR: Flock is moving beyond fixed roadside cameras, into drone surveilance.

With a fixed camera, you might be able to alter your travels to avoid it. In practice that is hard due to how many there are. But you can try. A drone can be anywhere. You prob won’t even know it is present most of the time. You cannot change your routes to avoid it.

We now know that Flock does not log only plates. It also IDs pedestrians and cyclists, ppl on scooters or skateboards. It seeks to build a complete picture of the movements of a whole population.

#privacy

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StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today on 27 Sep 20:25 next collapse

My favorite are drones with laser pointers that can point down at flock cameras and drones

Mongostein@lemmy.ca on 27 Sep 23:48 next collapse

Skeet shooting?

pirate2377@lemmy.zip on 28 Sep 03:13 next collapse

Bruh, he has to be ragebaiting. Why else would he think this would be a good idea to say outloud?

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Sep 03:14 collapse

His chatbot told him it was a great idea.

WitchKnight@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Sep 05:59 next collapse

One day we’ll all be like the kokiri with our own personal drone fairy to spy on every little thing we do and say and think for our corpo techno overlords

Pandantic@midwest.social on 30 Sep 03:27 collapse

Listen! To your corporate overlords.

RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org on 28 Sep 06:40 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/bb7a127e-afaa-471c-9ede-953a2ebcb01d.png">

helix@feddit.org on 28 Sep 14:40 next collapse

Literally evil. How the fuck did we as a society arrive at people like this being successful?!

eldavi@lemmy.ml on 28 Sep 17:32 collapse

capitalism rewards psychopathic behavior so long as it’s profitable.

helix@feddit.org on 28 Sep 19:46 collapse

Yeah but why is it profitable? Their only customer base are other evil people. And in my experience, only a small percentage of people are evil. Yet they control so much.

into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml on 28 Sep 21:34 next collapse

because fascism is what happens when profits are threatened. and cameras and drones are a useful thing for fascism to have.

eldavi@lemmy.ml on 29 Sep 03:05 next collapse

a customer base of the richest people on the planet and, yes, there’s only a small number of them. so small in fact that it’s possible for us to overpower them.

Pandantic@midwest.social on 30 Sep 03:25 collapse

It is profitable because we allowed rich people to become richer and now they’re spending their hard earned money and political power on a surveillance state.

ayyy@sh.itjust.works on 28 Sep 17:46 next collapse

“Fastest growing” is such a BS business-brained fake metric. This could mean they went from selling two drones to selling 20 drones, a 10x growth!

idriss@lemmy.ml on 28 Sep 18:00 collapse

  • 100% drones imported from China and reprogrammed (his business will die the moment there will open competition)
umbrella@lemmy.ml on 28 Sep 20:54 next collapse

drones are harder to destroy. makes sense with their stuff’s popularity.

FreddiesLantern@leminal.space on 29 Sep 06:49 collapse

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeet_shooting