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- shut it down!by whateveracct
- How do people find jobs where they can spend this much time doing things that aren't part of their job?by laughing_man
- I guess I'm a heartless engineer, because I could never imagine myself loving (obsessing over) someone so much that I would feel a need to check in on them 2,000 times.by runamuck
- Anyone notice how the exact number of searches is 2048, a power of 2. Weird coincidence, I guess.by aryaveersr
- With all of the privacy concerns of Flock, at least in the interim it’s a useful honeypot for criminal law enforcement.by toomuchtodo
- LOVEINT is likely highly undernoticed.
I am unsure if I'm 100% anti-Flock, but requiring a court order or exigent circumstance to look at any Flock camera feed may be necessary.
by meowface - >“It’s a very effective tool and we don’t want to be judged on the poor decisions made by one officer.”
Yeah, I bet you don't.
- This is just a drop in the bucket. There have been at least 50 cops charged with using flock data to stalk ex partners and women they are interested in!
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