It's funny, if the company had just sold cameras to cities, they probably could have avoided this whole mess. But they just had to hit some keywords for Wall Street (like "AI" "cloud" and "SaaS"), which had the side-effect of making it appear (true or not) that they were part of a Palantir-style surveillance panopticon that tracks you everywhere.

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alex43578 5 hours ago | parent [-]

A big part of the value is the network: track a stolen a car or a suspect in the next town over or across the country.

	▲	kennywinker 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		A car, a suspect, an ex lover, a union organizer, a journalist going to meet a source, an activist headed to a rally. All kinds of things, really!
	▲	Larrikin 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Or a woman who got an abortion
	▲	cucumber3732842 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And they will either quietly rebrand and build it or someone else will. Government loves the product. What it doesn't like about Flock is that the peasants are aware about it and complaining.