Comment by tremon
6 months ago
his surveillance data?
Surely it's Floc's surveillance data, if they're the ones storing and handling it? Did he really believe he (or the city) actually owns that data?
6 months ago
his surveillance data?
Surely it's Floc's surveillance data, if they're the ones storing and handling it? Did he really believe he (or the city) actually owns that data?
I don't recall the details, but I think he was explaining that the city paid more to avoid Flock reusing the data. Of course governments use third party vendors to store and handle their data all the time, that doesn't necessarily grant license or ownership of the data to those vendors.
My main counterpoint in that conversation was that the public was simply not well-informed enough about these kinds of data ownership and usage agreements to give consent to this scale of surveillance, and from what we're seeing Flock pivoting to, I feel my concerns were well-grounded.