Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley faces online mockery over an allegedly blurred home, raising real questions about surveillance executives and personal privacy.
Where I live, many towns have certain spending thresholds, below which some administrator can make unilateral decisions on what to purchase without getting council approval.
Flock et. al. know this and do bespoke contracts for like $1 under the limit, so in many cases the council isn’t even aware.
This sort of data collection by private companies should just straight up be illegal. If they’re not beholden to the bill of rights, I don’t want them maintaining this sort of data.
But also put that pressure on your local city councils (and other state and local government entities) that keep perpetuating this surveillance.
They are often the ones signing on the dotted line for these contracts at the insistence of their ostensibly subordinate law enforcement.
Where I live, many towns have certain spending thresholds, below which some administrator can make unilateral decisions on what to purchase without getting council approval.
Flock et. al. know this and do bespoke contracts for like $1 under the limit, so in many cases the council isn’t even aware.
This sort of data collection by private companies should just straight up be illegal. If they’re not beholden to the bill of rights, I don’t want them maintaining this sort of data.