Someone’s upset they’re not getting their kickback.
Flock should have splurged and bought two more councilmembers.
Can’t read the whole article but this guy is clearly a moron. People can choose to not carry a phone with them but nobody chooses warrantless surveillance being conducted and paid for directly by the government
Well at least the government and big tech companies have a perfect record of keeping sensitive private data safe! /S
He also recognizes the need for more privacy protections for cell phone and internet users but is clearly only interested in having a little tantrum and not in actually helping anyone.
Can’t read the whole article
toddler minded. thats embarassing for an adult person.
It seems to be a requirement for certain governmental bodies these days.
In an earlier February city council meeting, Flowers said, “I believe personally that guilty people act defensively. If you don’t have anything to hide, then it shouldn’t be a problem. I also believe when you are in a public space, your privacy kind of goes out the window because you are in essence in a public place.”
This guy really has a thing for spying on everyone in his town against their wishes, I wonder what he’s hiding
Someone needs to follow people like that around with a camera for weeks. And when they inevitably crack, just ask if they have anything to hide and state that in a public place all privacy goes out the window.
It would be interesting to learn how big his kickback from Flock is.
It’s probably something comically small. Like $5k. Most politicians are cheaper than we think.
I am continually shocked at how cheaply people hold their honor
Awww. Someone’s kickback is contingent on a successful installation of spy cameras.
What a fucking candyass. You have to wonder if the fuckwhit was getting kickbacks or something… I just can’t imagine any other reason for that kind of behavior.
Learned a new fancy word today thank you!
Here to help ;-) Which one was it?
The
LOL …whole sentence, basically :-)
Candyass. What a powerful word… I shall make good use of it
It’s an older insult, but it checks out. A “classic”, if you will.
Conspiracy: flock is a blackmail machine. This council member is doing it out of fear
If I was a member of a law enforcement agency who actually cared about the public good, I would run a sting operation on this guy, because Polymarket is running the chances on him accepting future bribes at 100%.
Gotta invent that agency first
I was writing that for the FBI agents that lurk around here inventorying the commies, hoping that if they have no shame, at least they would be careerist enough to go after an easy win.
Well why don’t we just ban oxygen then?!?!
But only for people with 100 million or more dollars net worth.
And yet something tells me that if someone followed him around with a camera crew 24/7 he would be deeply concerned.
If anything a faceless invisible entity following you should be even more horrifying.
Gotta wonder with a town that small, how many restraining orders it would take to make it illegal for Flowers to enter city limits.
Get the fucking money out of fucking politics. Solves around 90% of all conflict of interest issues.
Can’t read the entire article unless you have an account, soooo…
Try Reading Mode, it gives you this:
After months of discussion and outrage from residents, the city council of the tiny town of Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to immediately end its contract with the surveillance company Flock. In the aftermath of the vote, one of the dissenting council members crashed out and said he would be introducing measures to ban cell phones, the internet, cameras, and nearly all technology in the town of roughly 900 people.
Bandera had a state grant to install eight Flock Safety AI license plate reader cameras in the tiny town. The technology proved to be incredibly controversial, with residents repeatedly turning out to city council meetings to say that they did not want government surveillance in the town; the poles that the cameras were installed on were repeatedly destroyed by vandals in protest, leading the town to have to replace them at their own expense. Last week, the town formally decided to abandon its contract with Flock entirely.
After the vote, Councilmember Jeff Flowers, a staunch Flock supporter, said that if people in the town wanted privacy then the city council should basically ban all technology, essentially calling people who did not want government surveillance hypocrites. Flowers said he would propose a series of new regulations at an upcoming city council meeting, which he is calling the “Bandera Declaration of Digital Independence.” In a letter posted by the local newspaper, the Bandera Bulletin, Flowers said that in the name of preserving privacy he would suggest the city go back to the days of 1880.
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“For months, I have listened to the outcry regarding License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology. I have seen the eyerolls, and I’ve even been met with ‘Nazi rhetoric,’ the dangerous claim that believing in accountability and community safety is somehow equivalent to totalitarianism,” Flowers wrote. “Comparing a neighbor’s desire for a safe street to a dark chapter of history is a classic case of comparing apples to oranges; it is a distraction used to avoid the reality of the threats our town faces today.”
Flowers said that at the next city council meeting he will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits. If we are to be truly ‘private,’ we must leave our smartphones at the city line.” He will also propose “a total ban on outward facing cameras,” and “a total termination of all internet services and electronic record-keeping. We are going back to 1880, paper ledgers and cash only.”
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Heh
I, for one, am glad that some politicians finally realise the privacy problems that come with GPS and cellular devices!
What?
