YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit

bjorn_identity

Citizens sometime commit crime. The Police justify indiscriminate gathering of evidence preemptively against all citizens using Flock based on the rationale that when a crime does end up being committed, the evidence will already be gathered. Well, guess what? Police also commit crime. The same justification applies. If Flock is justified, this is justified.

Razengan

Every law that lets police and politicians spy on citizens should have a corollary that lets citizens spy on police and politicians.

ljf

I've often thought about a number plate reading dashcam app for citizens that would warn you of dangerous drivers around you, let people flag the cars they want to call out. Moderation would be a nightmare though, but I thought you could have to submit some sort of proof (recorded from. The dashcam) but that just increases the moderation overhead... Of course AI could be help and hinder.

cs02rm0

I really detest the way surveillance seems to just increase without any democratic mandate.

ihuman

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50026555

HelloUsername

Discussed yesterday: " YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops (gizmodo.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50026555 356 comments

ChrisArchitect

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50026555

ErroneousBosh

> “One of them [the officers] took the time to specifically mention how scary it would be for them, because people would be able to find out where they lived, when they got on their shift and what they were doing throughout the day, and that that type of powerful information could put them personally at risk for any bad apples that might want to track them down,” Yeah well, if you're not doing anything wrong you've nothing to worry about, eh?