Decoder with Nilay Patel

Benn Jordan thinks the surveillance problem is much bigger than Flock

We never voted for an insecure network of cameras on every street corner, and we're certainly not being asked if we're comfortable with access to this network being given to police officers with a penchant for abusing it.

The New York Times

Why the Coast Guard Is Using Surveillance Drones in the Great Lakes

We see private companies increasingly at the center of law enforcement operations that have profit incentives, carrying out surveillance of what ordinary people going about their ordinary lives are doing. And I think people inherently understand that we need law enforcement in this country, but there are natural, inborn limits to how much they watch us, how much they hover over us, how much they see us, and robots and A.I. have the potential to eviscerate those limits.

TED

How Surveillance Tech Erodes Your Privacy | Jen Golbeck | TED

Data that law enforcement would require a warrant to collect if they did it directly, they now can just go buy for a few dollars from private companies with no court order and no probable cause. The surveillance allows them to circumvent the protections that we have written into law.

Cheeky Pint

Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime

For most major cities, if a human is not physically hurt, the crime goes to the bottom of the list.