> Nor when I pass a flock camera.

You are not, or at least, you think you are not.

How far removed are we from the federal government revoking the passports of everyone who attended a No Kings rally, anywhere in the country?

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Lonestar1440 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

... And what do you think stops them from revoking the passports, today?

Do you think it is Courts and the looming Midterms; or are they just flummoxed by the lack of good surveillance data?

It's really a fantasy and a silly Taboo.

Our Democracy will live or die by politics, not silly rules on data collection at the margins.

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macintux 3 hours ago | parent [-]

We’ve never had a central data store that would make it practical to achieve such a feat. Now we have one that could answer questions like this, forever.

Mass surveillance at scale is not a trivial problem to solve, but Flock is both making it happen and making it clear that they are fine with enabling bad actors to take advantage of it.

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Lonestar1440 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The FBI has been an IBM customer for a very long time.

Like maybe the "cheap cameras everywhere" part is novel + important, but "central data store" truly is not.

Slippery reasoning like this is how silly taboos get perpetuated.

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TimorousBestie 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> How far removed are we from the federal government revoking the passports of everyone who attended a No Kings rally, anywhere in the country?

Many trans people have already had their passports revoked, for some there is no path to obtaining one again, and it is deeply unsettling to me.