evacide3d ago

If you leave the infrastructure of surveillance in place, people in power will inevitably find an excuse to resume using it. You have to take that shit down.

https://boltsmag.org/verona-wisconsin-ends-contract-flock-ai-surveillance-cameras/

This Wisconsin City Ditched AI Surveillance Cameras. Now Activists Want to Keep Going. - Bolts

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing... Read More

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@evacide If cities allow the cameras to stay in place, have they really, truly, in fact, ditched the cameras?
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@hotarubiko

> So, concerned that the cameras may still have been spying on residents, Diaz had the city cover them with black plastic bags in January. Only then did the company agree to take down the cameras. 

No.

@evacide

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It comes down to either maing them useless to Flock or removing the cameras themselves.

@evacide