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I have recently learned that these readers have about 5 pounds of copper in them. Just saying …
Hunh. I wonder what that's worth to some enterprising few.
A few ounces of gold on all the gold plated components.
“A lot of this risk goes away if you ensure that the data is deleted,” Sannon said. “It can’t fall into the wrong hands. It can’t be requested or misused if it’s just being regularly deleted.”
Yeah.
That data will be deleted.
For sure.
“We deleted it but the law says nothing about extensive backups of backups we forgot about in cold storage oopsie daisy uwu!”
Washington blue super majority:
"Ban license plate readers because they are being used by ICE or put more in because the plate reader companies paid us off... Tough call."
Speaking from another big west coast city where people are debating these things - lot of the pro-flock folks are people in the more well-to-do areas that want to get tough on crime.
They don’t like that suburban burglaries and car break ins are a lower priority for police. Cops in big cities are usually prioritizing the nastier crimes, not low value smash and grabs that are damn near impossible to solve.
People in the nicer areas throw money into cameras and private security, then the camera and security companies give the residents a bunch of bad data that shows their product is working through correlation, not causation. Then the residents become proponents for solutions that often have pretty poor efficacy when you look at non-industry data.
These security companies have a playbook. I imagine there are hundreds of other cities in the exact same spot.
Yup you nailed it. That's exactly our problem up here. A lot of affluent cities like Redmond were mentioned were quick to adopt these cameras and they did nothing to help with the crime issues but the security companies did a great job selling it and continue to do so as more cities here are adopting them faster ever day.
IMHO, flock really benefited from the pandemic crime leveling out. People have been returning to pre-pandemic habits, and the inflated crime has naturally gone down everywhere. But now flock can show a lot of 2022 to 2025 data to people, and they think the product makes them safe.
Flock could’ve hung furbies instead of cameras, and crime would still be down considerably.
Everyone knows furby was a fed.
I thought it was a CCP plant?