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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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[–] garretble@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Make it 0 seconds and we still don’t have a deal.

Cut the poles down.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 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.

[–] RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works 26 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck you, I don't want to live in a private panopticon, you don't have the right to make us

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

private panopticon

That's the only thing George Orwell got wrong: he envisioned surveillance conducted by the state - i.e. a communist dictatorship, but what we end up with today is surveillance conducted by late-stage capitalist monopolies in cahoots with the state - i.e. a fascist dictatorship.

Either way, it's a dictatorship.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago

It’s almost like the demonization of the economic theory that kept men from gaining power arbitrarily though riches had nothing to do with the universal evil that is authoritarianism and that it was all a ruse to allow the most sinister men to rise to power through whatever subterfuge they could muster 🤔

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 points 19 hours ago

you don’t have the right to make us

Apparently they just take the left.

I don't think the surveillance capitalists are asking for your opinion...

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 32 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Yah they're lying. Why should we believe the seven day figure? Oh yeah, we shouldn't.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

Believe or don't believe, it's unacceptable. Flockerjacks=heros.

[–] Zulu@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

Didnt benn jordan literally find out some of the cameras still have video of when they were in the factory?

Def longer than 30 days, let alone 7.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 39 points 23 hours ago

Gee, I feel so much better now...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 21 hours ago

BUT, if you pay for this premium you add on, you get the expanded storage capacity

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Data should not be sold or used outside its 1 purpose. It should not be available to the original company at all to look at or have access to. Accessing data should only be allowed through court issued warrants and only on the devices in the proximity and time of the incident. As someone who is an admin to systems that deal with patient data information I can tell you without a doubt we dont even have access to this data, just the setup of everything else around it. It also has a full audit log of everyone who even views the data. This isnt anything new, they just decided to change the rules to see how far they can get away with doing whatever they want for personal gain.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Sh'yeah and monkeys might fly out off my butt.

https://youtu.be/QOKociU8t_Q