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they'd get an eyeful out here in the woodlands. these old mining roads are barely passable as it is
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2026
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I have a camera in my car but it's just so I can get the license plate numbers off of coal rolling trucks so that I can find out where they live and put sealing foam into their tail pipes. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Guarantee that data is going to be sold
Don't worry the cameras will have some insane price per month that the company charges. So not only are they getting the data they're getting tax payer dollars as well. Same as with Flock, Axon, etc. Government grows in power against it's citizens, and the company gets free data. It's a win win for those signing the deal.
No need, the murderer is inside the house. Palantir.
Are you fucking kidding me? USPS was one of the last US gov entities I partially respected.
Current US postmaster general: David P. Steiner. He was the candidate favored by Trump and said that if a state refuses to give the Trump administration their voter lists, the Postal Service will not mail their ballots. Republicans ruin everything...
The part worth watching is the data side of the dashcam-company partnership: who owns the footage, how long it's kept, and whether it can be shared with police or sold on. USPS is subject to FOIA, so a records request for the pilot agreement and any retention or data-sharing terms is one of the few concrete things people can do here. If the deal really is only about mapping roads and signs, the contract should say so, and if it doesn't, that's the story.
Can we pease stop building panopticon
The only "upside" to all this is that the worse it gets the more awareness people have
My local school board installed cameras in the buildings. Ostensibly to track where the shooter is in case there ever is one.
I spoke against this at the meeting by talking about Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon.
I spoke fully 5 minutes before realizing
None of the fucking school board knew who Bentham was or his idea for total surveillance prisons.
I don't think that is terribly surprising as it is a pretty obscure reference
Should not be obscure to people who ostensibly have degrees in philosophy and/or social science and presume to have the wisdom and foresight to set public education policy
People are dumb sheep. Awareness is going to do jack fucking shit when they're coked up on social media.
Hard disagree
People are slowly starting to wake up
I mean we've all moved to Lemmy instead of using other social media. It ain't perfect but it shows a lot of people are trying.
Normally, I'd agree with you. I was the only person I knew in my whole community that was anti-war in 2001.
But Flock losing 100+ contracts, just in September, and 400+ in 36 states since June suggests that awareness of the problem is translating to mass action via the boring, pedestrian democratic process. (Also a great reminder that while we have no power nationally, we still have power locally.)
Agreed that people are generally sheep. It's why people still vote D and R, but at least right now, they're doing something. The overall problem is that it takes way less time for this sort of thing to proliferate than it does for people and the law to catch up.
It could be useful to find and report potholes and other maintenance issues, but I doubt anyone is stupid enough to believe that's why they're doing this.
yeah they'll definitely fix those potholes instead of leaving them there until just before the next local election
When you see your ~~postal truck~~ taxpayer funded Google camera trucks with them be sure to take your curbside mailbox down and put a mail slot on your house. Make the fuckers get out and walk to every damn house so they can be vigilant for oily driveways or any sitting water too.
Sadly that is not the way it works. Where I'm from the only places that have walking carrier service have always had it and nimbys have prevented change. New developments don't even get mailbox in front of house but community mail centers/boxes.
Oh well then. Still I've always wanted to take a trashcan and stick the front half of a mailbox in it so that the mail just falls down into it. I don't order packages no more so they have nothing I want.
I've always resisted it because it would be disrespectful to postal workers.
But honestly, if you're going spy on me, help rig our elections, then fuck it, you should be reminded what your job mostly is: spam.
So that's my filter. It goes strait to trash.
Malicious compliance, baby.
Dig it.
I’m going to park my old, fat ass on my front lawn stark nekkid until they pull those fucking camera out.
Land of the Free y'all
Jokes on them! My mail carrier never comes down my street.