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- This is actually one of the more limited and benign risks of voluntarily installing a municipal/private panopticon system owned by a corporation.
Because of the motivations and degrees of agency associated with under-regulated capitalism, derived data about vehicles and people will be stored indefinitely because it has value to be extracted, to be sold and leased, to the highest bidder, be it to data brokers, police agencies (as is the supposed mission), and intelligence agencies. They won't necessarily be US-based entities either. It will be used to form judgements, discriminate, make inferences, and accusations about people with limited or wrong "evidence" anytime between now, days, years, and who knows for how long in the distant future. No privacy and unknowable risks of misuse and abuse that manifest with use of new technology developed or "connections" made with new information at any time in the future.
- As an observer from another country, it is increasingly obvious that America can no longer call itself 'The Land of the Free' unironically.
In my view it is closer to a police state.
by My_Name - 3d printing to the rescue: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3107766-flock-sock-flock-ca...by ajsnigrutin
- Cops abuse every system that's given to them, to varying extents.
Whining about lack of access controls and rogue (i.e. not using to do their job properly) cops is implicitly saying that this system could/would/should exist if it has "proper" access controls, whatever that means.
- https://i.ibb.co/WWWYznHX/flock-future.png
;-)
See also: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/06/06/web-of-knowledge/
by thangalin - At this point I think it's necessary to notify anyone who has been tracked after a fixed number of days, unless a court order is used to extend that period. An officer using this for legitimate reasons should have few problems getting that court order. This would at least give people some amount of safety net from stalking by LE.
- It was only about an hour ago I saw yet another mindless commentator on one of these threads saying "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about".by King-Aaron
- I don't understand why a regular patrol officer would / should even have access to something like this without some level of extra authorization. They're not detectives running an open investigation ...
In this case this officer was searching numerous networks over and over again, that alone should trigger some metrics that raise the question "uh ... why?"
by duxup