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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by jonahx on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:50PM (#48896243)
Is there any realistic road to having them outlawed nationwide? Eg, ignoring probabilities here, could a wildly successful grassroots program where it became an issue as politically salient as immigration or abortion eventually lead to legislation banning them?
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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by bell-cot on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:18PM (#48898222)
> Is there any realistic...

SCOTUS could hand down another surprise decision:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatrie_v._United_States

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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by jonahx on Monday July 13, 2026 @10:24PM (#48901544)
If phone companies' geofence info requires a warrant, it makes zero sense that flock info does not.
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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by thesuitonym on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:56PM (#48897135)
A national ban is unlikely to happen. Big companies like Flock are incredibly experienced at paying off enough of the Congress to stop legislation they don't like. You're better off trying to focus your efforts on your local municipalities and the state.
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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by kulahan on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:20PM (#48899687)
This is true for almost every issue, for what it’s worth.

Almost.

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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by NewJazz on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:52PM (#48896271)
Probably? Would be easier to develop drones to rip off the solar panels.
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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by snovv_crash on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:04PM (#48896420)
Black spray paint is less effort
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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by jachee on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:23PM (#48896671)
Paintballs are even better, environmentally and effort-wise.

Especially if the propellant tank is pressurized using a solar powered compressor.

(Theoretically, of course. I wouldn’t advocate destroying private property.)

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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by dietr1ch on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:51PM (#48897077)
Destroying public property is bad in a general sense, but not enough to describe the situation here.

Would you take the knife out of your robber? Or is that stealing private property?

Surveillance endangers society/democracy and it's a threat too

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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by malfist on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:23PM (#48897514)
Paintballs are destroying public property?

Flock cameras are public property?

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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by jachee on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @07:55PM (#48928789)
At no point did (or will) I defend the surveillance state.
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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by ethagnawl on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:28PM (#48896754)
Hypothetically, of course, it would be even easier to just sneak up from behind and drop contractor bags over them.
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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by NewJazz on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:11PM (#48898955)
There is no sneak up from behind in this system, or at least it can be very hard to target. You must know the full extent of the network, emerge from the blind spots, dismantle pieces, then return to the blind spots. Faster than they repair the machines.
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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by cucumber3732842 on Monday July 13, 2026 @08:03PM (#48900628)
Ride there on an e-bike with a full motorcycle helmet. Cut down the pole. Cut off the camera. Throw the camera head in the river. GoFundMe if they catch you.
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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by pjc50 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:40AM (#48904262)
> an issue as politically salient as immigration

This is more likely to lead to making them ubiquitous; people will demand a camera network linked to a database of valid faces of US nationals.

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