I may have misread but it seems the article says the records are qualify as public records and so can be requested by anyone.
That’s not the same thing as public domain, unless I’m mistaken.
Yes, it’s different.
Public records can be public domain. Public domain works can be requested with a public record request. Not all public record requests will result in public domain licensed documents being released.
What are some (legitimate) examples where public records can’t be released?
lol, stick a couple in a police union hall and see how fast the privacy walls go up.
Put a license plate reader indoors?
Maybe it’s the cameras themselves that are the privacy concern, hmm?
Throw the cameras in jail!
Why not deport them?
No, it’s fine if the state has access to that data, it’s not a privacy concern. It’s only if citizens can see it that it becomes a problem. /s
The ruling came after the cities of Sedro Woolley and Stanwood sued Jose Rodriguez in civil court to block his records requests. Both cities have since turned off their Flock camera systems.
Great outcome
Flock cameras should be illegal, and it would be better if they were all destroyed.
They do so much damage to privacy. There’s no way these things should exist.
Okay but hear me out, how would we craft a world that combined all of the dystopias science fiction warned us against if we left out mass surveillance?
You just gotta get creative. What if we had a lotto system, where every day one person gets a million bucks, and fifty people get to do forced labor for the rest of their life? We wouldn’t need surveillance, we’d just have to tell them we’re watching and let the RNG do all the work instead.
Uh oh I think you’ve gone and added a new dystopia that we’ll need to incorporate:( I’d read it though, solid premise
Delete your comment before they actually consider doing this
Can you ask for the Police chief data?
Wouldn’t it fall under 2a to just shoot all these?
Yeah it’s right in the amendment:
Thou shalt keep thyself strapped at all times when around shady electronics. What will YOU do when your printer makes a noise you don’t recognize?
So looking at it. It seems around the world just means the USA.
I wonder if there’s fewer around my area because there’s a local vendor doing the same thing. Their building is fairly prominent and is surrounded by cameras.
Not “Public Domain”. That has a specific meaning in copyright law. It’s about creative works that are owned by the public and not subject to copyright.
What the judge decided is that they’re Public Records: “qualified as public records subject to the state’s Public Records Act”.
Oh, now it’s a privacy concern.
I do like like them, these anti privacy pieces of shit.
I do not like these flock cameras. I do not like them one bit.
“Would you like them in a store?
Would you let us build some more?”“I would not like them in a store.
I will not let you build some more.
I don’t want you to track my van.
I do not like them, Sam-Alt-man!”
Why is the community that is posted in someone’s home address?
Read the sidebar for the community. The person started it because they had multiple break-ins at that address. The person was an outspoken police critic, so the cops refused to do anything about it. They started the community to document all of it, and it eventually became a place for them to document more generalized police abuses and authoritarianism.
As a polite reminder there’s a map of these cameras and if you see a camera not on the map, you can add it.
Link doesn’t work for me
Deflock.me you might have to copy/paste. But if you clicked it right after I posted it, I I had an extra letter in there, it’s fixed.
Thx
You’re welcome! Fat fingered it lmao
Nothing in my area it seems, phew!
Yeah that’s what I thought too, I added 4. Ugh. Keep your eyes open!
What do they look like?
deflock.me has photos.
Its an app called deflock and its on github. There’s also a group called deflock to further expose them. They’ve called them domestic terrorist.
OF COURSE they called them domestic terrorists. That’s what all authoritarian regimes call groups that are a threat to them. 🙄
Ah, their website says the app is coming soon. Didn’t even think to check GitHub. Thanks!
You can add it to Obtanium to keep it updated as well. Obtaniun is an awesome app that let’s you add all repositories to it and it keeps the app updated whenever a new version is added to github.
Thanks!
You just copy and paste the direct link to the github repository and click add! Took me a while to get it figured out.
Bloody hell, I knew they were around, but not that they had rolled out that much already.
And that they’re now working with Ring doorbell now too so all of that is shared with police too.
I couldn’t reach the article so I found another one from the Everett Herald https://www.heraldnet.com/news/judge-denies-request-to-exempt-flock-footage-from-public-records-act/
Hell yeah Washington State. Let’s hope that Cascades through the rest of the pnw
Haha Cascades
Pun intended
