The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley.

“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

  • 51dusty
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    7 hours ago

    I guess that is my confusion.

    why would “legislation to be passed that criminalized the usage of personal data for surveillance” fall under this attainer scenario? seems very similar to “legislation passed that criminalized murder”…

    • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      I don’t think it would. Congress could criminalize the behavior of corporate surveillance, then prosecutors could charge any individual or company that engages in that behavior. It’d only be a bill of attainder if it was selective by identity (e.g. a bill that proclaims “the CEO of Flock is guilty of criminal surveillance and should be arrested”) rather than a defined criminal standard that applies to everyone.