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Parent Post: Dayton, Ohio covers its own 72 Flock cameras with trash bags after data went to ICE
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chrisvpnet
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6/11/2026, 5:16:19 PM
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It's a very complicated issue for sure. Another problem that I didn't mention, is that Flock customers are allowed to download their data and keep it indefinitely, available to search without any of Flock's oversight mechanism seeing it. So far, we have only been discussing the data INSIDE the Flock database... but the fact is, many agencies are storing their own data individually, and we have no way of knowing how secure it is or how often they search that data.
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saarnok
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6/11/2026, 7:15:36 PM
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To me it's all about information asymmetry. We can't have a system where "they" have all information and we have what they tell us. Banks cope with information with absolute precision on a scale that absolutely dwarfs FLOCK and do so in a way that is adequately transparent to the average person pretty much all the time. Most tellingly they do NOT presume the people on their end are blameless. They have systems to assess the people working for them on an ongoing basis, and any average teller will simply receive instruction to stay home, which they do until the people who audit their work is done. To conclude for now; it seems this tech is not so much enabling corruption as exposing it. Very few swords cut only one way.
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