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Flock Safety privacy changes: retention cut to seven days (thenextweb.com)
submitted 1 day ago by ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Flock Safety privacy changes cut data retention from 30 days to seven and make search audits compulsory, after dozens of police abuse cases.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I find it fascinating that in today's world, private companies are allowed to decide how long they want to keep the entire populace under surveillance, just like that, without any laws or any judge involved, without the entire thing instantly turning into a giant scandal or people rioting in the street over it.

As a gen-Xer who has known a world where privacy actually meant something people deeply cared about, the world we live in today is frighteningly dystopian.