Elgin Community College resorted to covering the surveillance cameras with trash bags and zip ties. Public records show that federal immigration authorities have accessed Flock data at other Illinois colleges.

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[–] 49 points 3 days ago (31 children)

Why not just cut them down and shred them?

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  • [–] 20 points 3 days ago (24 children)

    Why, because getting caught would be illegal, of course. ☝🏼

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  • [–] 33 points 3 days ago* (19 children)

    But - they’re on College land and the contract has been terminated.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (18 children)

    I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but it’s like how you can’t trash someone’s car because they parked it somewhere and left it. It needs to be removed either by Flock or by the city, which probably doesn’t want the cost/hassle of it if waiting for Flock to do it fixes the problem.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago*
    • the contract is terminated
    • they don't remove their assets

    so either you remove them and let Flock reimburse the work or you can use the assets to cover the costs. – Is what common sense says, your laws might be more nonsensical.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago* (3 children)

    I wonder if the college can then sue for illegal surveillance

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    I'm sure they will.

    There aren't enough laywers in the world to save Flock from bankruptcy, in when their shit catches up with them.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Bankruptcy? No. The admin wants to bring back public executions, so flock's little pig boy ceo could have a different solution.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (9 children)

    So then there shouldn't be any issue with rendering them inoperable, right? Bag the solar units, put the Flock Sock on the cameras. If you can't legally take them down, just prevent them from working.

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    I read somewhere that a focused/localized emp effect isn't that complicated to DIY, but I'm just some rando online. Could be nothing, frankly, and certainly don't use a VPN and a hardened browser to do any follow-up research to ascertain veracity and edify yourself, as is tradition. 🧏🏼‍♂️

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (3 children)

    That's like actually illegal though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (2 children)

    Only as illegal as unowned cameras, especially in residential areas, AFAIK. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Besides, I presume it's up to the wielder/maker to align said gadget's scope to affect only the target location, not beyond. 🧏🏼‍♂️

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    Radiating with intent to destroy is very very illegal. Radiating without a license is also very illegal.

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  • Fair point, though disobeying unjust laws is a civic duty —especially when corps are flat-out ignoring other, more fundamental laws leading to such ☝🏼 I suppose it's up to each individual what amounts to worthy expressions of their right to privacy and how far they're willing to go to defend it. ✊🏼

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

    It's flock. Just tell them to go fuck themselves and to sue you. Then when you're required to pay, do what Alex Jones did.

    Then sue them.

    Fuck it, put a bounty on what flock does. Start setting precedence.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    something with the contract. worse was flock would send guys out to debag them and the college had to send guys to rebag them. I was listening to a radio piece interviewing an administrator and they were saying it went on for awhile and was a whole cat and mouse game.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

    My town cut power to them and flock went in and reconnected it because they hadn't been explicitly told to fuck off.

    They know they're enough of a target that people are destroying them all the time.

    But that was on town property. I would think the college should be able to have flock employees trespassed if it was a constant thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    campuses are pretty open spaces. I hope they don't go the way of highschools.

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