Indeed, the broad backlash against Flock has grown so strong that the surveillance company last week announced mandatory new audit controls and lower default data retention periods for US users.
I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't call out how much bullshit was in that statement. They are just changing the default settings for new customers. That's it. All the deployed cameras remain the same, and new customers can just toggle those settings off of the defaults. It is so obvious that they were attempting to get credit for doing nothing, and reporters should call that out.
Vote with money, and spread the info about this cancer far and wide so everybody else votes with money. Its not a minor technical issue, the whole concept of how they operate their devices is amoral and/or unlawful in many parts of the world.
Thats the only stick with carrot these companies follow, rest is just empty PR not worth anyone's time.
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I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't call out how much bullshit was in that statement. They are just changing the default settings for new customers. That's it. All the deployed cameras remain the same, and new customers can just toggle those settings off of the defaults. It is so obvious that they were attempting to get credit for doing nothing, and reporters should call that out.
Vote with money, and spread the info about this cancer far and wide so everybody else votes with money. Its not a minor technical issue, the whole concept of how they operate their devices is amoral and/or unlawful in many parts of the world.
Thats the only stick with carrot these companies follow, rest is just empty PR not worth anyone's time.