Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record

Re:Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules... by stingraycharles on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:25AM (#47216562)

Yeah, it appears they have a lot of things backwards, for example:

> “We were very disappointed,” Franklin said. “That means perpetrators of crime, people who are maybe engaged in domestic abuse or stalkers, they can request footage and that could cause a lot of harm.”

The whole point is that they should have been collecting data on perpetrators of crimes only in the first place, not a massive dragnet.

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Re:Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules... by tclancy on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:41AM (#47216719)

It feels so in bad faith as there’s a claim ICE could use the footage if it’s public domain. They already can and that’s one of the big arguments against it you clowns.

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Re:Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules... by skeeter2020 on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:37AM (#47219342)

beyond that it also implies "but the bad guys could then trawl all this data; only us, the good guys should be able to do that!"

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Re:Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules... by tclancy on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @08:43AM (#47232206)

Yeah, that's even more important, isn't it. It begs the question, framing the conversation as "Who should have access to this invasive, privacy-destroying footage" rather than "WTF? Stop this."

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