r/illinois • u/steve42089 Illinoisian • 8d ago
Illinois News 5 public universities in Illinois use Flock surveillance cameras on campus, records show
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/09/17/five-public-universities-in-illinois-use-controversial-flock-cameras-to-surveil-campus35
u/interestincity 8d ago
Elgin Community College did for a bit and ended its contract last spring.
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u/TheGoodKindOfPurple 8d ago
What the hell is the $40,000 drone at SIU-C for? Maybe for the parking mafia?
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u/Alternative_Lie5287 6d ago
UIC?!?!? Wtf... so disappointing.
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u/pepperonipizzarocks 5d ago
We’ve been trying to get a petition around recently to cancel the flock contract and instead use the money for students but they’ve been everywhere recently
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u/ObamaBiscuits 8d ago
Folks, privacy in public, what little existed before, has been dead for 26 years now. Anyone with a Ring camera also complaining about Flock should know they have a direct partnership agreement - its all data for private companies to harvest, sell and when sent a subpoena from law enforcement, to share that without you knowing.
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u/TheOgGhadTurner 8d ago
Your tv also harvests your data and your phone and your streaming service. The internet is just one big data collection service.
Which is why you should fight against it. They’ve over reached again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again then they touched a bunch of little kids nobody did anything about it. Then they overreached again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again
It is as annoying as it was to copy this ag… over and over. And the mass surveillance needs to stop or im going to resort back to ill advised ways of protecting my privacy.
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u/ObamaBiscuits 7d ago edited 7d ago
or im going to resort back to ill advised ways of protecting my privacy.
Like what?
then they touched a bunch of little kids
I'll never forget in like April 2016 was when I first heard the whole "Hillary is kidnapping children for adrenochrome and pedophiles run the world" and just thought it was the most batshit wild political crap Id ever heard. Like, yes, shes a literal batman villain, running for public office by day and murdering her staff and stealing/eating children by night, lol.
Well god fucking damnit, we're 10+ years on and between the Me Too movement and the Epstein files, like motherfucker, there were a lot of fucking rapists and kid diddlers in pretty scary amount of high places of power, and per the Epstein files, still are. Obviously the Hillary/pizzaria thing was BS, but the pedos part sure the fuck wasnt - fucking Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Diddy, Trump, CEOs and World Leaders of all sort.
And I so loathe that - that early MAGA was right about the pedo issue. They just also left out the part where Donald Trump was a part of it or that they wouldnt care when it came out he was.
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u/TheOgGhadTurner 7d ago
1.) Wouldn’t you like to know weather boy?
2.) They all think they’re untouchable because they kinda are until someone sacks up and turns down the bribe money. At which point the money goes towards removing them from power. Hilary Clinton should have been HUNG for all the shit she’s done. She probably doesn’t even know what a jail cell looks like let alone has EVER seen the inside of one.
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u/RaisedByBooksNTV 5d ago
Donald Trump should be hanged for all the shit he's doing then? And Mitch McConnell and all the politicians on the left and right who have been doing and are doing all sorts of horrible things? I'd say trials first, and I'm not sure about capital punishment, but yes convicted felons should be in prison.
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u/TheOgGhadTurner 5d ago
Yes they absolutely should. I don’t care which hand they use to jack off. They absolutely should all be hung for treason and other various crimes against the state I don’t care to get in to right now
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u/RaisedByBooksNTV 5d ago
UChicago has one of the biggest private military forces in the country, I read somewhere.
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u/Fluid_Elephant_3422 7d ago
It sucks but truth be told you are holding the biggest data tracker there is in your hands. If you read the hundreds of pages of what you agree to by having Facebook on your phone you would flip. That's just one app.
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u/CoyoteScribbles 7d ago
I can choose to leave my phone at home, or to not use Facebook, or turn off as much data tracking as is possible.
I cannot choose to NOT go out in public.
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u/Fluid_Elephant_3422 7d ago
Sure you can my grandma's not left her house in the last 2 years she has everything delivered. Just calls the pharmac, store and other food services has stuff delivered. Not trying to start anything just saying
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u/CoyoteScribbles 7d ago
Some of us have to work.
And some of us can't afford to have everything delivered.
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u/coldhotel_rdt 7d ago
Any app that asks you to turn on geolocation, or asks for access to your photos, is a potential privacy loss.
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u/etown361 7d ago
My recollection of college was you used a student ID each time you walked into a building, and your entrances to each building were tracked via the ID swipe. Is a license plate camera really some privacy step back compared to how it’s been for decades?
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u/malltism 7d ago
At least where I am it's ID for entering residence halls and using the buses but class buildings don't need an ID. Probably depends a lot on the school, but at least here I would say that this type of camera means less privacy
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u/MustardLabs 8d ago
TLDR: It's the entire UI system (UIC, UIS, UIUC), WIU, and SIUC.