The last few weeks I've been hearing a lot about flock cameras (?) even though I never heard of them before. Is this some mid term election strategy/divisive plot? I'm not in us.
I am an outlier in that I like them because they help catch kidnappers and help police be able to return stolen cars in time for the victim to make it to work in the morning, with no obligation to press charges.
I haven't seen evidence of anyone else like me online or in real life.
Like I said, my position is not popular. I think if you can get rid of the abuse from the police departments that have this tool, and it enables them to save people, it would be a good thing.
Often when a car is stolen, it's stolen so someone can do a second crime with it. So reducing successful car theft has lots of good downstream effects.
When I see posts online of people cutting down the cameras, it makes me feel like those people are pro-crime and anti-police rather than pro-privacy.
To add a complication to my position: I have been to the UK, and I did not like all the CCTVs around. They were often pointed at places where pedestrians would be rather than at the roads tracking the cars. That felt invasive and intrusive.
If present day Flock is just a stepping stone towards having that in the United States then my position on the matter would change.
People are being awakened to that reality by the proliferation of data center projects where their local leaders green light projects that people feel will negatively impact their community.