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The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley.

“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 54 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

How about we compromise by saying remove them all, give back the money spent, delete all data and in exchange you don't get the treatments due one helping enable orwillian levels of suvelance

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 28 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yup, the compromise is not sending him to Tennessee to be publically hanged.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 69 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

There should be no compromising our right to privacy and these cameras need to go. Fuck Flock and their cash grab.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Interesting that he’s framing it as a balance between privacy and safety instead of privacy and security.

Flock cameras haven’t been proven to make anyone safer.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 hour ago

If anything they actively make people unsafe by falsely flagging drivers with a partial tag match for a stolen vehicle

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 9 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

They’ve proven that police are just dumb as fuck.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 2 points 8 minutes ago

I AGREE! There IS common Ground between allowing the Epstein Class to SPY ON CHILDREN and the People who think CHILD RAPISTS Spying on Children is WRONG! Maybe just a COUPLE MILLION of Taxpayer Dollars to Spy on Children as a Treat?

-Centrists!

[–] ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

Safety for who, exactly, Garrett? Because the common people aren't safer with this overreach

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 41 minutes ago

Safety for his fellow fascist pedophile Epstein class oligarchs; from the people.

[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 3 points 9 minutes ago

I like the sounds of this. Here's an offer:

Fuck off, and the guillotine gets put away.

Everybody wins!

[–] Folstar@lemmus.org 2 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

I agree. Our starting position is all flock cameras should be taken down and then shoved up Garrett Langley's ass. Every single one of them.

Now let us come to the table and find a compromise.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 5 points 37 minutes ago

They're not even watching traffic though...

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 7 points 49 minutes ago

Hey buddy, you didn't ask us about shit before you started installing your creepy cameras to monitor us everywhere, so you can go ahead and fuck off now.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 13 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 3 points 23 minutes ago

Langley needs to find a compromise between living and getting Luigi'd.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 6 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

It's wild, because when I was a kid, there was this huge conservative talking point about how trading freedom for security was bad.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 points 40 minutes ago

Conservatives are all about freedom until there's profit involved.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 3 points 31 minutes ago

The rich will never feel save while we, their victims, have privacy.

They know better than even we do how much reason we have to be plotting against them.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

Fuck you, Garrett.

[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 points 24 minutes ago

Sure, the compromise is we cut them down until you stop. Sound good to everyone else?

Correct, "safety" compromises our privacy. Now you're getting it, captain shithead CEO! So with that in mind, there is no way we can accept these cameras.

[–] darkmarx@lemmy.world 3 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

[–] mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 2 points 34 minutes ago

I call for something else lol.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 47 minutes ago

You have both by not having you around, asshole.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 points 51 minutes ago

I drove my company at the wall. Dearest wall, give me a compromise, pretty please?

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago

You can't make a deal w/ the devil.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

My privacy and freedom are invaluable to me, I don't give 2 shits about some CEOs profits. He can go rot in a ditch for all I care.

[–] LuminousLuddite@lemmy.today 1 points 41 minutes ago

There will be no compromising on the eventual warrant requirement.

[–] Aarrodri@lemmy.world 1 points 43 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

Not an inch ! Not a mm!