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goldenarm 2 days ago

Why is this site blocked in the EU ? Was disabling cookies on your static page that hard ?

1970-01-01 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

You're not missing anything. Here is the full text: (this could have been an email:)

On Sept. 30, 2025, a Flock vice president logged into the Dunwoody PD’s Flock system and looked at a camera in the children’s gymnastics room of a private community center here in Dunwoody.

He did not look at any other cameras in the entire 400-camera network that day.

The community center shared their cameras directly to the PD under the pretense that access was “solely for real-time critical incident response.”

Flock and Dunwoody elected officials both say this was for a “sales demo.” They claim this was “part of authorized activity approved under the city's demo partner agreement.”

The problem with that is that the city cannot provide any information that that demo partner agreement exists.

What kind of sales demo would require looking at one camera in a children’s gymnastics room? Can anyone rationally explain why a police agency that is interested in Flock would like to see one third-party camera integration that is in a children’s gymnastics room?

Jason Hunyar lives in Dunwoody.

sterlind 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

why are private community centers installing Flock cameras indoors?

actionfromafar 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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arjie 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No one is going to go around complying with random rules from other countries, man. If you don't serve that population, just opt them out.

GJim a day ago | parent | next [-]

> random rules from other countries

Ever thought that complying with those "random" personal data protection laws shows a respect for users decency and privacy in your own country, as well as those users in the UK/EU?

goldenarm 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They complied by building a blocking system, instead of just disabling cookies with a flag, which would have taken exactly the same effort.

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Jtarii 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And by "no one" you mean almost everyone.

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urbandw311er 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Except that it’s an entire continent and loads of people do comply with it. You just sound ignorant.

manytimesaway 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

So we're supposed to deal with your bullshit Patriot Act while GDPR is too "random" for you?

dghlsakjg 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They are a hyper local business. The chance of making any revenue off EU users is close to 0, which is much higher than the cost of figuring out EU compliance.

The conversation went like this:

IT director: “If we serve ads or collect data from EU users we have to be GDPR compliant. That’ll cost several thousand dollars worth of employee time”

Exec: “how much revenue is attributable to EU users.”

IT: “Single digit dollars per year”

Exec: “is there a cheaper solution?”

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mywittyname 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

GDPR compliance is good IT practice. It's easy to do, good for users, and states are rolling out similar laws.

But now, instead of their story being read by people all over the world, having gone viral, it's just going to pirated. Not only losing them out on revenue, but recognition as well.

This is part of the long death of online local news. They can't be bothered to do the simplest things for their site (make personal data collection optional). But they have tons of time to fill them with online cancer and make them unusable without ad blocking.

advisedwang 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This website is a small, local company. They have a newsletter signup page so they do collect user info. Quite likely they are not GDPR compliant (e.g. take longer than 30d to delete records, don't have a process for answering data requests etc). It is reasonable for them not to want to invest in getting the legal advise to know whether they are compliant or process improvements to become compliant, as there is no ROI on that.

I love GDPR, but it's understandable for folks with no connection to the EU to just nope-out.

jazzyjackson 2 days ago | parent [-]

I’m still not clear why US companies with no business units in Europe feel the need to make any changes at all to be in compliance with a law that has no jurisdiction over them, but agree that Geofencing is a cheaper solution than asking a lawyer.

krater23 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This website and topic is protected by a SEP field. Who cares about U.S. problems?

_carbyau_ 2 days ago | parent [-]

On the one hand, sure, it is a US problem. On the other hand, US culture has a way of travelling.

IE surveillance dickheads see what is in the US and decide to enact it in their local country.

In this case, it is handy to see how the conversation about such surveillance is going.