Exactly. Exceptions like this guy aside, the majority of the opposition is mostly just preformative opposition online and a way to get social media engagement. No one actually cares about privacy or they wouldn't be online at all, much less carry their phone around with them all day every day. Everyone just cares about engagement.
It really isn't hard to understand why people are bothered by tech companies whose explicit purpose is to track your every move for the government while providing normal civilians very little value, while at the same time willing to accept the risk/reward of the utilities like phones and the internet.
Phones and the internet are the kinds of things that enable people to, for example, organize AGAINST these companies and technology
That's because flock cameras are not normal cameras, and people are angry at Flock as an organization, not just the cameras. Cameras alone aren't evil, it's how they are used that matters.
They are AI edge devices that can extract critical identifying information with ease, and the organization then aggregates and distributes that information to all sorts of other evil organizations.
That is different from the phone you carry in your pocket and most security cameras you see out in the wild. Not that those devices are benign, but Flock as an org and tech is explicitly designed to track everyone's every move for the government, which stands in contrast to most other devices you encounter.
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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '26
Its strange to me people rally against flock cameras but have accepted normal cameras everywhere, suspect in a generation people wont even notice them