Comment by gonzalohm

1 day ago

You don't see anything wrong with being tracked 24/7 ? The fact that it's already possible to be tracked with your phone signals that there is already a problem that needs fixing

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nullbio  1 day ago

Flock is not tracking you 24/7, your phone is. What is so dangerous about the government knowing that your car passed a camera at a particular point in time?

  • ipdashc  1 day ago

    > What is so dangerous

    We can make up plenty of scenarios where it's dangerous, but even without those, can we not just... not like something? To use the common analogy, my neighbor staring at me through the window all the time wouldn't be dangerous. But it's weird, it's uncomfortable. Can we just not do it? I want to be able to drive places without my movements being logged. Clearly many millions of people agree, given the backlash against Flock. This isn't some essential technology, we got along just fine without it.

    I would also like it if people would wake up to their phones tracking them, etc, and demand that laws be passed to deal with that. But this is a good start!

    • nullbio  1 day ago

      And what percentage of that backlash is by people with a criminal record? And what percentage of these criminals are the ones pushing the narrative of this being some grave invasion of privacy that must be stopped for "mah freedom"?

      It's easy to work people up about anything involving monitoring, their brains immediately shut down and think emotionally about the subject. But not all forms of monitoring are equivalent, and some of it is useful and has net-benefit.

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  • mikem170  1 day ago

    Ideally we'd democratically decide whether we want this or not. We can make spurrious tracking (which is usually for profit) illegal, if we want.

    People in former communist countries and other oppressive places often have a different attitude about such things. They learned the hard way.