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The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley.

“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

There's gotta be a compromise for how deep I can stick my unwashed poop-covered fingers in your bag of sugar. Do I not use the bidet and wipe too hard? Do I like exploring each turd in the toilet, or guessing how many pieces of corn are in each one while they're coming out? That's none of your business! Your only job is to decide how to tolerate my poopie fingers churning in your sugar.

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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Funny. I don't know why but my brain keep reading the title as: "Fuck CEO".

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[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 26 points 1 day ago

Eat shit, Garrett.

[–] Zomg@piefed.world 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For his part, Langley has said that state regulators should “pass bills that make [the illegal use of Flock data] a criminal offense.”

No one trusts the police to genuinely enforce anything that could impact themselves.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I call a guillotine a compromise.

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hey won't be gullitined and instead he will just face prison time and have his mass survelence system dismantled and the rest of his assets seized and redistributed

A fair and just compromise imho

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[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Here's the compromise: Take down the cameras and people won't guillotine you.

[–] downdaemon@lemmy.ml 69 points 1 day ago

The compromise is that he lives

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 327 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

There should be no compromising our right to privacy and these cameras need to go. Fuck Flock and their cash grab.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 22 points 1 day ago

Also as illustrated again and again, from ICE hunting down good people to cops stalking women because they are pigs, surveillance is not safety. It's rather the opposite. I want privacy so that I can remain safe.

I don't think anyone who ever lived in a totalitarian regime would describe it post fact as having made them safer.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 84 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fuck Flock, Axon, and the entire rest of the surveillance state, both government and private.

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the window of compromise has long since passed. Flock as a company went in with a guns blazing, anti-privacy, record everything, give the information to anyone style business style, and then chose to double and triple down on the style when the controversy/outcry first started. Once you've hit the stage where there's people starting to protest and riot and cities have started to go out of their way to ban the product and retract contracts due to the fact that they're concerned about public support. It's too late. That's a fire that's not being put out.

[–] KeithD@lemmy.nz 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I propose they compromise by going out of business after deleting all data and removing their cameras from everywhere.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 241 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How about we compromise by saying remove them all, give back the money spent, delete all data and in exchange you don't get the treatments due one helping enable orwillian levels of suvelance

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 116 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Yup, the compromise is not sending him to Tennessee to be publically hanged.

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Safety? They constantly put innocent victims at risk by misidentifying them as the criminals!!!

Odd description of 'safety'

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

ok.

we'll continue ripping down your shitty products and you can just shut the fuck up.

see, isn't that a nice compromise?

[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

No quarter for flock cameras no compromise with surveillance tech ceos

[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

Fuck off with compromise. take your shit and get out no one wants you in case the guillotine wasn't fucking clear

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

I'm amazed at how their concern for our safety allows them to do all sorts of heinous shit for ~~profit~~ our safety.

[–] ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Get rid of them.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 124 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Interesting that he’s framing it as a balance between privacy and safety instead of privacy and security.

Flock cameras haven’t been proven to make anyone safer.

[–] Librerian@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

It's a false dichotomy, pure and simple. They try to frame it in a way to make their invasion of your privacy seem as if it's in your best interest, even though the opposite is true. Typical fascist rhetoric.

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We're already in the safest time for petty crime ever, and flock won't help with America's real issue of corporate crime. Safety will not be affected.

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[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 94 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like the sounds of this. Here's an offer:

Fuck off, and the guillotine gets put away.

Everybody wins!

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

No, fuck off.

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember, it's Axon as well, and many more companies. and a major contrbuter who has linked in with all of these creepy services is Amazon and has the largest surveillence network in residential areas not just on travel corridors comprised of Ring doorbell cameras tied in to all of these systems.

Flock seems like the sacrificial lamb, to me. They are in your face, ther cameras are obvious, and their CEO runs his mouth so much everyone hates him.

It's like how Elon can't keep his mouth shut, but Ellison far more dangerous and nearly as rich.

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[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 21 points 1 day ago
[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My suggestion for compromise would be to bring back tar and feathering

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah, no, the interpretations of the 4th amendment that led to these things being legal were clearly made in an era where they relied on the high cost of surveillance to minimize the amount there is. A reasonable modern day interpretation of the 4th should ban these

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Well, since you care less than zero about our safety, Langley, there will be no compromise.

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