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YouTuber Says Cops Paid Him a Visit After He Built Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops (gizmodo.com)
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It turns out that the gander is not actually super keen on what's good for the goose.

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

One of [the officers] took the time to specifically mention how scary it would be for them, because people would be able to find out where they lived, when they got on their shift and what they were doing throughout the day, and that that type of powerful information could put them personally at risk [from] any bad apples that might want to track them down.

Edit: Also, these dingbats do realize that anyone with the money to pay for it can already set up Flock cameras and access the data, right?

[-] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Anyone with any amount of tech knowledge or tutorial following can get into THE flock camera system.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That too. It's incredibly insecure

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe the officer should make better fashion choices

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