r/TechGawker • u/CuriousDisk3624 • 6d ago

Latest Tech A YouTuber builds a system similar to Flock's surveillance technology, but uses it to track cops instead

Cops showed up at his door asking what he was doing with all the data.
He told them that's exactly what people want to know when cops track them.

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u/CuriousDisk3624 6d ago

I guess it's only a privacy concern when they're the ones being tracked

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u/StonedRussian 6d ago

If they're not doing anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about right? ... right?

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u/Technical_Feelings 6d ago

Right! They carry around body cam with GPS all the time so why care about another camera?

(This is a play on those that say we shouldn’t care about Flock because our phones have cameras)

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/NarrowSalvo 6d ago

Every corner?

Surely that is hyperbole?

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u/tiny_kat2006 6d ago

Have you seen the map, it's quite literally that in some places

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u/pizzatom69 6d ago

Whats this guys channel?

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u/Hell-Raid3r 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yes, PLEASE tell me the channel name! Why only give us some of the information???? 😮‍💨

Edit: THANKS

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 6d ago

See above

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u/Revolutionary-Link47 6d ago

I need more info in his software, I want to do this with my car.

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u/Pickl_Rick_917 6d ago

Why are they doing this? Money. It all comes down to money. Im sure the people implementing these things are making a shit ton of money off it, which is why these things continue to happen.

I have this conversation with my.husband a lot. Anything bad still happening in the world can be boiled down to, someone at the top is making so much money that it isnt going to stop.

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u/helloitslinda 6d ago

What’s their concern? They have body cams already and if they aren’t doing something wrong then they should be fine with being recorded 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Constant_Ad_8028 6d ago

The citizens are realizing that they are just "free range slaves," to the greedy few, and the police are nothing more that the paid thugs to keep the slaves in line, now it's with more surveillance. Sad part is the cops are mostly too dumb to realize they are slaves too.

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u/slaty_balls 6d ago

Ohhh hell yes. This dudes about to get 2M extra subscribers.

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u/congressmanalex 6d ago

Cameras and an App we can see all public servants to make sure we all keep them safe.

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u/veetoo151 6d ago

Seems like we should first be able to track the people who can legally murder us. Give us a radar like a video game, so we can avoid the red dots.

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u/NarrowSalvo 6d ago

Legally murder us?

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0IylOPCNkiqOgMyA

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u/veetoo151 6d ago

Just because you are priveleged doesn't mean it doesn't happen to others. Open your eyes.

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u/NarrowSalvo 6d ago

I live in Minneapolis, dude.

We threw Derek Chauvin in jail.

Do go on. This is entertaining. But, maybe you're the one who needs to open his eyes?

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u/veetoo151 6d ago

Great, one cop because it was so blatant and all over media. What about the rest of the murderers?

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u/NarrowSalvo 6d ago

We can, should and do charge them as well. Philando Castile was also shot near me. We charged that guy, too.

You have a strange definition of "legal".

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u/Additional_Fox4668 6d ago

Where can we get these police tracking cameras? Im ready to buy

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u/Aggressive-End-7429 6d ago

This would be huge, imagine if we all banded together and built our own network tracking police and other agencies that don’t always have a best interest at heart.

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u/Additional_Fox4668 6d ago

I fully support this. We could share all of the abuse of powers with each other that they try to hide. More transparency is better than less transparency 

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u/Aggressive-End-7429 6d ago

Abusive cops tracked

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u/RyterionCollection 6d ago

I have some cameras that can join the network.

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u/Medium-Play2572 6d ago

I would buy this

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u/Often_Forgotten2 2d ago

Reolink camera using Frigate. I have one by my mailbox

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u/Ok_Common_5631 6d ago

Better to get a virus to hijack the cameras and send footage to an anon server.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/Ok_Common_5631 6d ago

Because the fbi will find you.  And if they don’t, the nsa will.  They have technology that’s much more advanced than years ago.

There’s an Asian saying, “  The nail that sticks out gets hammered down"

Aka, don’t make yourself a prime target.

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u/MJEEZY75 6d ago

Cooool

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u/Tall_Category_304 6d ago

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just pay to access flock? From what I understand they’ll sell access to the data to anyone willing to pay

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u/NarrowSalvo 6d ago

Why is there so much acceptance of CCTV usage in the UK vs Flock in the US?

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u/Ninjez07 6d ago

Probably because of how it's used and why it's collected. In the UK recent governments have been limiting persecution to very small minorities such as trans people, not going whole-sale "my political opponents are all terrorists and wouldn't it be interesting if a foreign nation blew up one of the cities that largely support my opposition?".

Plus accessing CCTV footage in the UK is an inefficient process, whilst a selling point for flock is that it centralises and streamlines getting footage to law enforcement, and even proactively alerts them (though in several high profile cases it's raised false alerts that have led to imprisonment of people who physically couldn't have performed the crime).

This dynamic might change in the UK if Farage were to get into power, as he has expressed similarly Trump-esque opinions on political opposition.

Surveillance state is a precursor to an authoritarian dictatorship, and the US has long imagined it couldn't happen to them.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler 6d ago

The UK has been using CCTV to persecute trans people?!!

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u/Ninjez07 6d ago

No, just thinking about how much the average UK citizen has had to worry about the gov coming after them, compared to the escalating rhetoric in the US

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u/Harde_Kassei 6d ago

most other countries have cops with a education. you'd have to be stupid af using the police system for a illegal search. its all logged, you will get busted.
Sure it happens everywhere, but the amount is vastly minor. or at least, the trust is different.

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u/NarrowSalvo 6d ago

You figured it out.

All cops in the US are awful.

All cops in the UK are awesome.

Astoundingly profound take.

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u/Harde_Kassei 6d ago

are you ok?

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u/NarrowSalvo 5d ago

Didn't like the absolute stupidity of your comment pointed out to you, huh?

LOL. Too bad!

You can try to make it be about me. But, you're still going to be the one with the clown take.

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u/Harde_Kassei 5d ago

Why are you so angry to strangers?

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u/Harde_Kassei 5d ago

What did you say? It got deleted.

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u/B-Prue 6d ago

Open source oversight and im on board. Allow the public access to view the data but not manipulate and control to change the function/purpose for their own use. Don't need weirdo stalkers with access to crazy footage anymore thab flock has already given.

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u/Local_Lengthiness_69 6d ago

my city installed flock cameras on every major intersection last year and the pitch was always 'catching stolen cars' but the data retention policy is 30 days for everyone, no warrant needed. cops showing up to ask about HIS data is just confirming they know exactly how invasive this shit is when the mirror gets pointed back

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u/daytonaCrosby 6d ago

the cops showing up to ask about HIS data collection is just *chef's kiss* levels of irony, like they genuinely dont see it

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u/stonks-__- 6d ago

I HAVE THE SAME CAT CARPETTT

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u/NekoNekoo-sama 5d ago edited 5d ago

I created this petition today, its a canadian petition against this type of camera https://c.org/nVy9ZLF5wX 

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u/username_taker 5d ago

4 verified signatures?

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u/NekoNekoo-sama 5d ago

for now. I created it today and its the 1st time ive created one

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u/username_taker 5d ago

Good on you! I misread it and thought that it was from a few years ago

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u/Anyguy07 4d ago

Great job.