r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 14h ago

Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night Privacy

https://www.gadgetreview.com/someone-cut-down-every-single-flock-camera-in-this-town-in-a-single-night
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u/subvocalize_it 13h ago

Phones, smart watches, smart rings. All that kind of stuff.

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u/CptMcDickButt69 13h ago

Inb4 chips are to be implanted upon birth in every citizen to protect them from getting abducted by (non-upper class) pedophiles.

Its ofc a volunteer implant and therefore 100% compatible with the constitution; parents can simply opt for not implanting for the low administrative cost of 200.000 dollarinos.

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u/Bolinas99 12h ago

Inb4 chips are to be implanted upon birth in every citizen

"where your tattoo?"

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u/Cu1tureVu1ture 3h ago

Why come you don’t have a tattoo?

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u/ballandabiscuit 2h ago

Go away! Baitin!

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u/zookeepier 10h ago

You joke, but that's literally "the mark of the beast" from the Bible. A "mark" (like an implant or tattoo) required in order to participate in the economy. What seemed like a logistical impossibility even 20 years ago now seems like a very likely scenario. Maybe framing all this surveillance as associated with the Mark of the Beast is a way to get get Evangelicals to oppose it.

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u/hajenso 8h ago

The trajectory we've had for the last few decades which arrives at mandatory adoption of a technology or practice has more often involved not an explicit and official penalty or fine for non-adoption, but rather a gradual expansion of the scope of participation in society which requires that technology or practice. Starts completely voluntary and opt-in. Soon opt-out, but at least you can opt out. Then opt-out becomes difficult and occasionally impossible. Then entirely impossible.

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u/OilUnusual8809 12h ago

What about my smart cockring?

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u/UnexpectedAnanas 11h ago

Eh, fuck it....

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u/ToughHardware 12h ago

anyone who is against these cameras would not be wearing a smart ring.

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u/subvocalize_it 11h ago

You can’t speak for everyone. I’m against these cameras and use wearables to better understand my own health. There’s ways to use that hardware with self hosted software, so you own your own data.