• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The ruling came after the cities of Sedro Woolley and Stanwood sued Jose Rodriguez in civil court to block his records requests. Both cities have since turned off their Flock camera systems.

    Great outcome

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    I may have misread but it seems the article says the records are qualify as public records and so can be requested by anyone.

    That’s not the same thing as public domain, unless I’m mistaken.

    • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social
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      Yes, it’s different.

      Public records can be public domain. Public domain works can be requested with a public record request. Not all public record requests will result in public domain licensed documents being released.

  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I do like like them, these anti privacy pieces of shit.

    I do not like these flock cameras. I do not like them one bit.

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      “Would you like them in a store?
      Would you let us build some more?”

      “I would not like them in a store.
      I will not let you build some more.
      I don’t want you to track my van.
      I do not like them, Sam-Alt-man!”

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    Flock cameras should be illegal, and it would be better if they were all destroyed.

    They do so much damage to privacy. There’s no way these things should exist.

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      Okay but hear me out, how would we craft a world that combined all of the dystopias science fiction warned us against if we left out mass surveillance?

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        You just gotta get creative. What if we had a lotto system, where every day one person gets a million bucks, and fifty people get to do forced labor for the rest of their life? We wouldn’t need surveillance, we’d just have to tell them we’re watching and let the RNG do all the work instead.

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          Uh oh I think you’ve gone and added a new dystopia that we’ll need to incorporate:( I’d read it though, solid premise

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    Hell yeah Washington State. Let’s hope that Cascades through the rest of the pnw