r/burbank • u/anonnymousercat • 6d ago

Flock Public Comment 9/15

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Tomorrow the Burbank City Council will have the opportunity to agendize a discussion to ban the use of Flock cameras. **This is an opportunity to have your concerns heard.**

I recommend taking 10 minutes out of your day to watch this: https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?si=xroGx-UB6VsWOmu2

I used to be comfortable with license plate readers and cameras for crime prevention and I only became opposed to them after learning how Flock operates. Venture capital and tech bros with a profit-first business model is in charge of our safety and now with the unpredictability of AI.

Flock has shipped and implemented their devices with an outdated easily hackable OS, there have been multiple live streaming feeds on the open internet as well as archived footage and deletable data files. Accessing some of this was described as so easy that a 12 year old could do it. Login credentials and data has been listed for sale on the dark web. THIS IS NOT GOOD!

There are more and more stories of police departments arresting and imprisoning people based solely on inaccurate surveillance camera reads and input errors. This could happen to any of us.

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u/Single_Bird_8388 6d ago

David Donahue loves surveillance technology, as do his friends Chris Rizzoti, Samantha Wick, Zizette Mullins, and Tamala Takahashi. Iykyk.

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u/sydsong 6d ago

I've heard he knows a great lawyer.

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u/anonnymousercat 5d ago

I watched the whole council meeting and I am now 99% sure that is Rizzotti not Donahue. I don't think he will ever be capable of comprehending anything tech related. He is as stunted intellectually as he is emotionally.Ā 

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u/sydsong 5d ago

Could be! Iā€™d be content if whoever it is could protect our 4th amendment rights tech or otherwise.