Awareness, the “I have nothing to hide” types slowly awakened (I used to be one of them), false arrests, etc.
I thought it was interesting that even in the most rural parts of Cali, I saw anti-flock billboards up along the 99 this weekend. It’s quite a unifying factor here.
Here in South Africa, they’re rolling out similar surveillance infrastructure.
Not as advanced as flock, but invasive enough. Protected by “but, crime”. Backlash isn’t widespread enough yet.
It’s called Vumacam. Their CEO is literally called Richard Croock. Dick Crook is meant to help stop crime in South Africa. Fucking kak movie.
The country is going through a brutal energy crisis, but no, it’s okay we can leave the cameras and the data processing centres on because they solve a negligible amount of crime, sometimes.
I can ramble on about this, but I just want to say, if it means anything, that I am proud of you Americans standing up to this bullshit. Sometimes using those things as literal target practice. Gives me hope in humanity.
I just feel like posting this completely unrelated story on every automated traffic camera thread, I can’t understand why I feel this compulsion.
https://cybernews.com/editorial/israel-hacked-iran-traffic-cameras-us-war/
It reflects overall anger at a system that uses faceless, soulless tools of mass surveillance and oppression, EXPLICITLY to our detriment.
In practice, all this surveillance and tracking bullshit will NEVER be used to assist you. And they stole our fucking money to build the system while suppressing our wages
They stole our content too.
We’re tired of all the bullshit in a system that seeks to bleed us dry at every turn.
I wish we’d seen the same outcry from the patriot act, flock is just a money grab, FT Meade already knows EVERYTHING about you
Why the Flock
the new meaning of the abbr. WTF
🙂
Are you guys seeing this? In my locale I see no protests, bumper stickers, local news coverage, nothing. Just more and more cameras coming up. I used to drive by four, now drive by six on way to work.
Start chopping them down, or destroying them by some means
If you don’t already have the requisite equipment, be sure to leave the local area to purchase it, pay cash, and obscure your face (also make sure that they can’t track you to the store specifically, use a flock map, a bike might be more prudent than a car depending on the scenario.
I’m thankful there doesn’t seem to be any in Canada yet so not really
I’ve seen yard signs related to data center push back near me. It’s anecdotal, but I’ve heard others speak about the cameras around here in negative ways (it was at a haircut!). It seems subdued, but I suspect there’s much more on people’s minds, they just aren’t letting it be known.
They are mostly coming down in my wider area, though some towns looking to replace with something else.
Nearby bigger more toursty town just put them up and everyone is super pissed.
Also have found some in the middle of nowhere, like next to farm fields on relatively busy country roads that have minimal incidents. What justification they can come up with other than just tracking people, who knows, but at best its lazy law enforcement for traffic, so still not popular. And very obviously new.
The criminals don’t want to be surveilled in public places. They want to get away with murder.
Get out of here man, lol.
How do them boots taste, peon?
To be this fearful of false narratives is to be anti-American imo.
