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Changing the lipstick will surely make the pig look better
Their platform lacks some big capabilities that the feds / ICE like to exploit. Most importantly, a national network. It’s all local.
Still creepy surveillance, but Flock is much worse.
Does not have a national network*
*For now
Yea, YET!
My government does nothing but lie to me of late.
Of late????
Buddy, the government has been lying since it's inception! The government on day 1 said "All men are created equally".
They signed those exact words into a legal document that defines the identity of the newly born country.
Then, after they all agreed that all men are equal, the work day was over, and they all went home where they all owned slaves.
Yea, I'm a big Will Rogers fan.
Of late, they've come out of the closet and doing stuff in broad daylight.
Yet.
Even if they don't have that capability in their own products, the information collected will be put into larger shared databases. It will just mean extra steps.
Maybe.
I was poking around to read about this, and it looks like Axon is leaning into this. Flock used to brag about Axon lacking in this capability, now Axon brags about being local-only.
But who knows, maybe they become a market leader and the feds push them to develop a national network in the future.
Samsung bragged about still having a headphone jack to dunk on Apple up until about 6 hours before they removed theirs. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Agreed. This could be a slippery slope. That said, I don’t know how the network and local data governance systems work. It could be designed in a way that makes a national network difficult.
That said, I’m not a fan of surveillance cameras everywhere. It’s too hard to know what is happening behind the scenes.
For now.
This is my concern. One day, there will be a silent update that will only be released to police stations. Citizens will never know about it and itll just be Flock 2.0
Like always seems to happen. The issue was pushed a few months down the line in these areas