I don't get why any of these devices are still intact...

Manuel_D 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Because most of the American public is not as reflexively anti-Flock as HN would lead you to believe. People acting like cameras recording their activities in public is some sort of grave privacy violation are not the norm.

Cameras recording tour activity in malls, and on public roads has been the case since the 90s. Flock became a lightning rod of attention due to ICE, but they don't actually represent any change from the status quo.

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dw_arthur 31 minutes ago | parent [-]

A camera in 2026 is not the camera of 1996. Cameras today are connected to active and passive monitoring systems which are much more invasive to privacy. What will a camera be able to do in 2036?

	▲	Manuel_D 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		To the contrary, cameras have been able to automatically read license plates since the 70s, and the technology became cheaper and more widely deployed in the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recogni... At the end of the day, a camera in public can only record images of people in public. That does not and never did require a warrant.

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AstroNutt an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Right? The installers conveniently made them within baseball bat range. Luckily, we don't have them where I live (small West Texas town).

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EA-3167 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are you willing to potentially be prosecuted to make a point that will ultimately come down to, "The cameras you destroyed are replaced with newly purchased units"?

The way to beat this isn't vandalism, it's getting them banned from every municipality and county in the country, while fighting at state levels for more bans.

It's also silly talk from kids online, just like "Don't vote, burn your local Wal-Mart" is only meant to impress other online children. The rest of us know that you'll neither vote, nor burn down the Wal-Mart.

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microgpt 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You get to sacrifice your life one or zero times in your life. Surely there are some terminally ill people who would do it?

	▲	EA-3167 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I can't speak for anyone else, but I suspect most terminally ill people want to spend time with the people they love, not breaking cameras and working their way through the legal system.

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inquirerGeneral 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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