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Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error (www.404media.co)
submitted 4 months ago by Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 61 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Their quote very much sounds like it was written by Noem or one of the other orange stooges:

Flock told 404 Media in an email “That website that is doxxing cops during active investigations. Today, we're busy working with journalists to cover the fact that our technology was pivotal in cracking open the case that found the Brown university / MIT serial killer in New England. If you'd like to report the news that matters, we'd be happy to speak to you about bringing justice to victims instead of activists trying to let murderers go free.”

DARVO

(Deny, attack, reverse victim and offender)

Pretty typical of this administration's malignant narcissism and the concomitant authoritarianism.

[–] Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Flock is a terrible company that repeatedly blames security researchers instead of working with them like everyone else. Laughable and abusable product, which is the point. It's always morally ethical to sabotage flock hardware

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 months ago

It’s a pattern with the most desperate of douchebag tech CEOs for the coming technofascist takeover.

Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Garrett Langley, Palmer Luckey…all of them pivoted from at least somewhat decent, if super corporate, products into the worst enshittified, bait and switch, industry sellout, profit grabbing trash. They all had platforms that normies had latched onto and then they shredded them for cash. Yeah yeah “same as it ever was” but I mean egregious this time.

Then they DARVO and whine on social media anytime anyone dares criticize it. Dunno how people keep falling for it

[–] jello@programming.dev 30 points 4 months ago

The link for those who just want that: http://haveibeenflocked.com/

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 15 points 4 months ago

I don't think it's really an error. I think that's just a handy cover for the real message. You are being watched, you don't get privacy, and if any police or other group wants to follow you, then you will be followed.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Millions of surveillance targets

Really makes you think. Can't help but wonder how many millions of crimes these guys are solving.

[–] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 months ago

They claimed some insane number at one point, like "we solve x% of crime in the US" but I forget how much they claimed. It was some insane value that seemed unrealistically high.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Wait, you mean to tell me that the surveillance dragnet system was absused by snivelling, petty and corrupt bureacrats who actually don't give a fuck about any kind of equality becore the law?

Well I mean they should welcome this self induced negligent discharge of a leak, after all, they have nothing to hide.