From Newsgroup: alt.privacy

If yourCOve been following the tech world over the last week or two, things just blew up around Flock Safety in a massive way. Their CEO, Garrett
Langley, went on Fox News recently and argued that focusing too much on privacy "prioritizes the wrong thing" and that we all just need to accept
a "compromise" between privacy and safety.

In case you aren't familiar, Flock is the company that installs those automated license plate reader cameras all over neighborhoods and cities
to help police track cars. As you can imagine, the internet did not take
the idea that privacy doesn't matter as much as safety well at all. The
clip went viral on X, and almost immediately, people started posting what
they claimed was Langley's home address online.

XrCOs moderation team has been scrambling to take those posts down, but
users just tweak the text or put the address inside altered images to
dodge the automated filters. Now, to be clear, doxxing someone is
completely indefensible and dangerous because it puts real people in
physical danger. But the irony here is thick.

Langley built a massive business on tracking ordinary people everywhere
they drive, yet critics pointed out that his own neighborhood is blurred
out on street view platforms. Furthermore, their cameras log millions of vehicle movements daily, creating a massive web of data that police departments and even federal agencies like Customs and Border Protection
can search. Langley gets a level of location privacy that his cameras deny
to millions of drivers every single day.

Under pressure, Flock recently lowered its default data retention period
from 30 days down to 7, but digital rights groups like the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF), which recently criticized Meta for removing
opt-in encrypted chats on Instagram, called that fix a joke because local police can easily override it and keep the data longer anyway.

Now the whole situation has spilled over into Washington, and lawmakers
are jumping in from both sides. Representative Keith Self introduced the PRIVACY Act to force federal agencies to get a warrant before searching license plate data, explicitly calling out Langley by saying the Fourth Amendment isn't up for "compromise." Meanwhile, Senator Josh Hawley
launched a formal investigation into Flock's data practices.

LangleyrCOs whole business model was built on the idea that your movements
in public are free game to be recorded; however, now he is finding out
what happens when that exact logic gets turned back around on him.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/flock-safety-ceo-calls-national-compromise- amid-camera-sabotage-public-revolt
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From Newsgroup: alt.privacy

On 05 Sep 2026, Flocked Up <radialsaws@174.16.11.77> posted some news:20260905.130534.d8a2ff96@msgid.frell.theremailer.net:

If yourCOve been following the tech world over the last week or two,
things just blew up around Flock Safety in a massive way. Their CEO,
Garrett Langley, went on Fox News recently and argued that focusing
too much on privacy "prioritizes the wrong thing" and that we all just
need to accept a "compromise" between privacy and safety.

In case you aren't familiar, Flock is the company that installs those automated license plate reader cameras all over neighborhoods and
cities to help police track cars. As you can imagine, the internet did
not take the idea that privacy doesn't matter as much as safety well
at all. The clip went viral on X, and almost immediately, people
started posting what they claimed was Langley's home address online.

XrCOs moderation team has been scrambling to take those posts down,
but users just tweak the text or put the address inside altered images
to dodge the automated filters. Now, to be clear, doxxing someone is completely indefensible and dangerous because it puts real people in physical danger. But the irony here is thick.

Langley built a massive business on tracking ordinary people
everywhere they drive, yet critics pointed out that his own
neighborhood is blurred out on street view platforms. Furthermore,
their cameras log millions of vehicle movements daily, creating a
massive web of data that police departments and even federal agencies
like Customs and Border Protection can search. Langley gets a level of location privacy that his cameras deny to millions of drivers every
single day.

Not really. Anyone who wanted to take him out could do so with little
effort.

Under pressure, Flock recently lowered its default data retention
period from 30 days down to 7, but digital rights groups like the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which recently criticized Meta
for removing opt-in encrypted chats on Instagram, called that fix a
joke because local police can easily override it and keep the data
longer anyway.

When Democrats are in charge of the police, that is the end result.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/flock-safety-ceo-calls-national-compromis
e- amid-camera-sabotage-public-revolt

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From Newsgroup: alt.privacy

On Sun, 6 Sep 2026 04:02:09 -0000 (UTC), chase <chase@4ax.com>
pretending to be Spammy, posted some news:

When Democrats are in charge of the police, that is the end result.

When Republicans are in charge of the police, you get criminals.
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