Fourteen cities and counties have dropped Flock contracts or cut their number of cameras, but three cities have rejected calls to pull down the devices despite a state funding freeze.
Boston paid for them to and opted out of national “sharing”…
Flock still sold the data to federal agencies.
Cities/states paying for Flock is fucking stupid the system has always been for feds, this way people didn’t freak.out as much about the rollout and the price to roll out 24/7 domestic surveillance gets broken into a million little fibers instead of on big fuckoff number absolutely no one would have agreed to.
Flock claims 120,000 cameras at 3k a pop. That’s 0.3 billion a third of a billion dollars.
And that’s just for the cameras. Not the data storage. Not the AI to scrape all the cameras constantly, not even the water and electricity to run all that shit.
If people realized how much of their tax dollars are going to this, there wouldn’t be a Flock camera or a data center left in America.
Boston paid for them to and opted out of national “sharing”…
Flock still sold the data to federal agencies.
Cities/states paying for Flock is fucking stupid the system has always been for feds, this way people didn’t freak.out as much about the rollout and the price to roll out 24/7 domestic surveillance gets broken into a million little fibers instead of on big fuckoff number absolutely no one would have agreed to.
Flock claims 120,000 cameras at 3k a pop. That’s 0.3 billion a third of a billion dollars.
And that’s just for the cameras. Not the data storage. Not the AI to scrape all the cameras constantly, not even the water and electricity to run all that shit.
If people realized how much of their tax dollars are going to this, there wouldn’t be a Flock camera or a data center left in America.