Low Profile@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoPeople are 3D printing covers for Flock cameras in response to “indiscriminate mass surveillance"www.howtogeek.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1126arrow-down1external-linkPeople are 3D printing covers for Flock cameras in response to “indiscriminate mass surveillance"www.howtogeek.comLow Profile@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.ca
minus-squareDelilah@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoThe camera is only a part of how it destroys privacy.
minus-squarejavasux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 days agoThe privatized database of location data that the police use without any of the regulations that usually apply to government surveillance
minus-squarenotfromhere@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoThe Bluetooth readers as cars drive by, is that what you’re talking about?
minus-squareSuccessful_Try543@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoIdk if the Flock cameras also scan Bluetooth, but they are the eyes of the system that feeds the database with location data and destroys privacy. By blinding the eyes, its input becomes coarser, its data older, but the previous data is still there.
minus-squaremnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days ago Idk if the Flock cameras also scan Bluetooth Newer models do
minus-squareHonytawk@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoSo if you close the eyes, that database can’t create new data. It isn’t much but it is the first step.
The camera is only a part of how it destroys privacy.
What are the other part(s)?
The privatized database of location data that the police use without any of the regulations that usually apply to government surveillance
The Bluetooth readers as cars drive by, is that what you’re talking about?
Idk if the Flock cameras also scan Bluetooth, but they are the eyes of the system that feeds the database with location data and destroys privacy. By blinding the eyes, its input becomes coarser, its data older, but the previous data is still there.
Newer models do
So if you close the eyes, that database can’t create new data.
It isn’t much but it is the first step.