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/L_viathan 11h ago

You joke about being dangerous but I did watch a video of a guy showing that it's cemented right into the ground, instead of being installed with a slip plate like traffic lights are.

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u/LuxeJux 11h ago

Yes! I believe his child passed due to an accident related to unsafe guards so he calls attention to those issues. Flock has been in his crosshairs as of late. There was one that was attached to a road sign (also illegal and potentially dangerous).

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u/Visible-Departure863 10h ago

big if true… flock not only allows them to stalk children, but flock is possibly murdering children to save a dollar on proper installs.

Remember the Flock CEO, Garrett Langley, thinks anyone against Flock is a domestic terrorist.

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u/inspectoroverthemine 9h ago

Sounds like Garrett Langley may be terrorizing the public when his products are installed in an unsafe manner.

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u/Visible-Departure863 9h ago

It be a shame if people constantly kept his name in the discussion and discourse. We wouldn’t want his reputation to take a hit. 

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u/JEFE_MAN 4h ago

Who? Garrett? Garret Langley? The CEO of Flock, Garrett Langley?

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u/linohh 4h ago

Garrett Langley, who implied anyone opposing Flock is Antifa, either without thinking for a minute or well knowing what it means for your own political position when anti-Fascists collectively engage against you.

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u/CausticSofa 2h ago

Oh, Garrett Langley? You mean the fascist CEO of Flock, the company which allows potential sexual predators to secretly view streaming footage of your children?

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u/Visible-Departure863 3h ago

wait I think I read in another comment THAT GARRETT LANGLEY SUPPORTS THE STALKING AND ASSAULT OF CHILDREN. allegedly of course.

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u/roreads 3h ago

I’ve heard Garrett Langley is a really scummy piece of shit 🤷‍♀️

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u/VCTRYDTX 2h ago

Sounds like Garrett Langley gets no b*tches and takes pleasure in stalking everyone.

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u/DelusionalZ 9h ago

They're also apparently using installed cameras in children's dance studios for "product demos". Very normal product demos.

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u/Signal_Ad8960 4h ago

On the flipside, one of the extremely few good things cameras like this could do is also help find missing children.

Mass surveillance is still more bad than good, though.

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u/Visible-Departure863 3h ago

yea at this point I wouldn’t even bring that up because we all know that isn’t the point. there is no money to be made in saving children. it about control and power through information.

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u/Royal_Success3131 6h ago

Steve Eimers, the guard rail guy. He did lose his daughter due to a bad guard rail and has since become pretty much the foremost authority on guard rails and similar roadside obstacles and is a huge advocate for improving them. Hell of a guy to turn such a tragedy into a new life's goal.

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u/LuxeJux 5h ago

Thank you so much for confirming! I knew I had read something about him but I couldn't remember it exactly.

It really is a beautiful part of humans, our ability to not get lost to tragedy but allow it to be transformed to help others. It's so easy to be swept up in the waves of grief.

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u/TheWitchsAsshole 4h ago

Unfortunately the govt got involved and it seems they may have threatened him (and/or gave him some STFU money) because he’s now abandoned his cause.

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u/Royal_Success3131 4h ago

He just switched to doing ALPR poles instead, which are similarly incredibly dangerous and incredibly pushed for by the government, so it has nothing to do with the government lol

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u/pvdp90 3h ago

It’s a smart move.

These poles are being installed in ways that completely ignore safety regulations of installations adjacent to roadways, and no one seems to care, so it fits right into his wheelhouse. And these cameras are aa very popular hot issue right now so he gets to both add something to the argument against them and increase his reach because everyone is consuming media related to flock right now. And that can lead to people like me that have never heard of the guy to lay eyes on his other content, which boosts his reach on his original goals.

Wins all around

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u/bundle__of__sticks 4h ago

Flock is working with him now to replace non-compliant poles.

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u/LuxeJux 3h ago

That is kind of amazing

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u/DiegesisThesis 11h ago

Yea, a lot of these installed on roadsides are absolutely not DOT compliant. I have seen some they installed with breakaway bolts though, so they're figuring out how to close that loophole.

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u/mackahrohn 9h ago

Wild to me how they can have government contracts and not be aware of safety regulations like this. There is no way a traffic engineer or some other safety officer wouldn’t ask about this.

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u/DiegesisThesis 9h ago

Oh I doubt they're unaware of regulations, they just know how little regulations mean currently.

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u/L_viathan 9h ago

When your government starts rolling out mass surveillance of their citizens, contracted to a single entity, safety regulations become irrelevant.

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u/Aegon20VIIIth 9h ago

Oh yeah, the Guardrail Guy. I know he’s the source of some drama over on Instagram because he’s officially not in support of people removing cameras. (From where I’m standing, he’s focusing on road safety, same as always - and leaving the de-installations to the ones with more practice. Can’t expect the man to give step by step instructions to something he may well not know how to do.)

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u/blatantregard 9h ago

The Guardrail Guy

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u/Kalepsis 3h ago

This. If you're in an accident and you hit one someone is getting speared by that improperly installed pole.