Tonight, questions about who is watching and who is in charge, as a tool promoted as a way to fight crime, fuel a national conversation about privacy, surveilla
Good on them for, you know, protecting their citizens’ privacy, but at the same time, like, when the city tells you, hey, what is this doing here and you just don’t answer, I feel like that’s when it escalates to a legal issue.
Like, there are crimes being committed.
Corporations are not allowed to unilaterally spy on civilians without some sort of authorization and approval, right?
Surely there’s some sort of way that this could actually be escalated to a crime that the company has committed and has to answer for, right?
But, as compared to an app, or something else where you’re getting a benefit out of it, you have to actually agree to the terms and services. Like, flock is just telling everyone to go fuck themselves. I feel like it should be pretty simple to do something about that.
We need a counter surveillance company that only tracks license plates for people with a networth over 10 Mil. Since we’re just putting up cameras wherever we want now.
Pay me and I’ll start putting esp32’s with cameras in a mesh network on sunset blvd. A bulk order of hardware, solder, etc. Plus cold drinks and tacos while I work.
A hard drive hooked up to pi5 w/ SATA hat to log and crunch.
I genuinely don’t know. We have such a permissive, business-first-and-nothing-else-matters approach right now that we’re literally forcing the public to alpha and beta test products that can (and already have) killed people. Nobody gave consent to participate in in testing Tesla’s shitty autopilot. Nobody consented to getting dangerous advice on mixing bleach and ammonia to make a cheap and effective household cleaner from an LLM, or seeing how much interaction with one it takes to drive people to suicide. Nobody consented to having cloud-seeding substances released into the air above their homes, but we’re allowing that, too.
Push the product out to the masses, what better testing pool can we ask for? It’s so invasive and should be illegal, but there’s more money to be made in allowing it to happen. After all, how else is America supposed to innovate quickly?
Good on them for, you know, protecting their citizens’ privacy, but at the same time, like, when the city tells you, hey, what is this doing here and you just don’t answer, I feel like that’s when it escalates to a legal issue.
Like, there are crimes being committed.
Corporations are not allowed to unilaterally spy on civilians without some sort of authorization and approval, right?
Surely there’s some sort of way that this could actually be escalated to a crime that the company has committed and has to answer for, right?
In corporate America, business spies on you!
But, as compared to an app, or something else where you’re getting a benefit out of it, you have to actually agree to the terms and services. Like, flock is just telling everyone to go fuck themselves. I feel like it should be pretty simple to do something about that.
Simple? Yes.
Easy? If you’ve got enough range time!
We need a counter surveillance company that only tracks license plates for people with a networth over 10 Mil. Since we’re just putting up cameras wherever we want now.
Pay me and I’ll start putting esp32’s with cameras in a mesh network on sunset blvd. A bulk order of hardware, solder, etc. Plus cold drinks and tacos while I work.
A hard drive hooked up to pi5 w/ SATA hat to log and crunch.
I feel like we could crowd fund this easily.
I genuinely don’t know. We have such a permissive, business-first-and-nothing-else-matters approach right now that we’re literally forcing the public to alpha and beta test products that can (and already have) killed people. Nobody gave consent to participate in in testing Tesla’s shitty autopilot. Nobody consented to getting dangerous advice on mixing bleach and ammonia to make a cheap and effective household cleaner from an LLM, or seeing how much interaction with one it takes to drive people to suicide. Nobody consented to having cloud-seeding substances released into the air above their homes, but we’re allowing that, too.
Push the product out to the masses, what better testing pool can we ask for? It’s so invasive and should be illegal, but there’s more money to be made in allowing it to happen. After all, how else is America supposed to innovate quickly?
Yeah, but you need a gun and major investor/employee’s address. Only way it stops.