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

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

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I think one of the problems that encompasses the flock debate besides the privacy issues is the relationship that the police have with people in the United States. Most police view people as a threat and if you look at the police training they teach them to be extremely violent. During simple traffic stops most police are on edge and have an attitude like they might be violent with you. I'm just talking about the general atmosphere- I'm not even getting into all of the examples where police have killed people for no reason, falsified information to arrest innocent people, and generally abused their power.

Did police want to wear body cams or did they want to continue without accountability? Police have a responsibility and have taken an oath. They should be required to have cameras.

In a society where all of its parts work together towards the same goal, ALPRs would not be a problem. In the US this surveillance is very worrisome.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 1 day ago

The only compromise we want to see is the structural kind.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 day ago

Okay, here’s the compromise: you close everything down, and we don’t feed you to a hungry business of ferrets.

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

What compromise? Where's your warrant to search our lives, our comings and goings? Rich people don't have to deal with this harassment.

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

-Ben Franklin

In other words: Fuck you, Flock.

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[–] comador@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)
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[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you get rid of your right to privacy, you get rid of your right to safety.

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[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 54 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's wild, because when I was a kid, there was this huge conservative talking point about how trading freedom for security was bad.

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

Conservatives are liars and thieves who support felons and pedophiles.

Never trust a conservative.

Conservatives are all about freedom until there's profit involved.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 days ago
[–] Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

There is no compromise. Garret, You will be lucky to be alive here in a few months. The only thing you can do is beg and grovel and give back every penny you and your company earned back to the American people and in addition, take down every flock camera. And to employees of this company, run and Publicly denounce them so you have a CHANCE to be hired anywhere again.

Work with evil, die with evil.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Fuck these clowns. Their “compromise” is finding some way to quiet the bad press while continuing to do what they’ve been doing.

“We’ll stop putting our cameras where people don’t want them and just put then where our clients want them.”

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember that town Winona where all eight of their Flock cameras were cut down?

CNN has an interview with a town councilman who says “we’ll just wait until all the news dies down and everyone will forget about all this”

Our elected officials all think we should live in a big PRISON

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 day ago

He says as he continues to launch surveillance drones without asking anybody if they're okay with that...

[–] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Okay, here's the compromise: disband your company and we'll put away the guillotines.

[–] ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Safety for who, exactly, Garrett? Because the common people aren't safer with this overreach

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[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

"Lol" said the scorpion, "lmao."

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Compromise is a dirty word.

[–] bibbasa@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

the compromise is for you to put flock cameras in every room in your house.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago

“How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

Spoken like a true sales/con artist. I can almost hear the brand guidelines poking through... Always mention safety before privacy, always treat safety as a given and privacy as the buffer zone in which to find compromise.

The compromise is how far each town chooses to go above security tier 0: emergencies with immediate threat to life or property.

  • tier 0 is defined as covering 100% of law enforcement requests of all agencies with jurisdiction in the covered area.
[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

The compromise is we let you take your cameras down instead of drawing and quartering you.

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