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Re:I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their do... by robot-wrangler on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @04:58PM (#47771440)
> They were saying "don't write to us, talk to the people who own the cameras and ask them to delete the data".

The response to this should just be, "Yes, very well, please divulge a complete list of your customers, their contact information, and information about camera locations so I will be able to pursue this per instructions".

When that obviously doesn't work either then we can all agree the law as written is completely useless, and feel great about rewriting it in a way that's calculated for maximum damage to both the vendor and their customers, and collateral damage to the whole panopticon. Or, just spitballing here, we can just skip to the punchline here and do all that anyway

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Re:I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their do... by MaxikCZ on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @03:25AM (#47775755)
> we can all agree the law as written is completely useless

But they wont agree, they find the law very nice in its current form, and have more brib.. ehm, lobying money for it to stay that way.

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