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Flock Reinstalled Its Cameras After Another City Canceled Its Contract
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The story is the city contracted them, they put up cameras. The city cancelled the contract, they took the cameras down. Then they up cameras again. Without any contracts. Who is paying them?
No company ever does anything for free. Without a city contract, why would they ever work/provide services?
Like it’s not about operating costs. Why would a for-profit corporation ever work without being paid to do it..?
No I'm saying that they want the data. They can sell the data to others. They don't need this specific city's money for this specific camera. They need the data. It doesn't mean that someone is paying for this specific camera. And doesn't mean that the city even had access to this data anymore. Anyone can buy this data that has access to the system.
The City isn't their real customer, and public safety isn't their real product.
The like the public safety angle, because then they get cities to pay the costs of deployment, but it's profitable without them.
I workforna city that just fired Flock, and what's making them move the cameras is that we're revoking their right-of-way permits and paving the shoulders where the cameras are located. Our ROW encroachment agreement boilerplate language allows us to destroy anything that is in the way of a public works project if it isn't removed within 10 business days of notice of revocation.
Why does a cell phone company put a tower up in a mountain pass where no one lives? No one is paying for installing that tower for coverage directly, but it's in their interest to have better coverage overall for all of their customers.
Same exact thing here. Flock gets the data regardless, and having a more complete network is useful to every client.