• CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    Yeah, because it’s the loophole around the charade that the gov doesn’t surveil the population. By paying companies, they can easily do what is forbidden by the constituency. Effectively, the constitution is a marketing exercise, barely existing in practice.

    However, if you pay someone to murder someone, its a crime, if you pay a company to break a law, you should be held responsible. Weird shit like companies being like humans and having rights is insane and if they are treated as beings, they should be held accountable legally and that includes the CEO and board who drive them.

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      23 hours ago

      Wait until Flock footage or data accidentally helps prove a cop guilty of a crime.

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        19 hours ago

        Like the cop that used flock to stalk their ex, I believe putting “waffle” (or maybe it was “asdf”) as the reason for using them? Pretty sure they just said he did it because he was tired then got off Scott free.

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          Last I checked there’s been like 14 similar cases of this. As far as I know, they’ve all retired, or moved agencies.