There is no expectation of privacy in public

But there's expectation of not being stalked, and stalking is what these networked cameras do.

Or the LED headlights that flicker in your peripheral vision!

San Francisco has good mass transit, so ALPR's don't affect them as much (yet) as in car dependent cities where people don't have as much freedom in how they get around.

Someone should advise Ho and Chandler et al that Flock wants to use facial recognition to track people because that will include bicyclists and people taking mass transit!

Officers deployed a drone, which flew in from above and then began recording suspects in real time as they smashed windows and stole luggage out of a parked SUV. The police then moved in and arrested them. They can do all this, Jenkins says, "without putting innocent people in danger with dangerous police chases."

That's a good idea, but it doesn't really need Flock.

I believe any warrant for such data should exclude any data gathered before the warrant was signed by a judge.

I think it should be more like demanding to see CCTV footage (that was also taken in the past) in that you can obtain data only for specific addresses/cameras specified in the warrant. Then if there's reasonable suspicion that certain nearby cameras would also contain information pertinent to this investigation, you would go and get a warrant for data from those cameras, too. Rinse and repeat. That's how it has always been done, why does it need to be any different for Flock cameras?

So they are suing for some capability that doesn't exist and wasn't promised anyway. Or was it?

The original quote they are riffing on is "The beatings will continue until morale improves."

The originaler quote from 1961 is, "all liberty is canceled until morale improves." (page 55)

An app hosted within the police department that queries both the police department's database and also the Flock database.

If increasing their prices would make them more profitable, then wouldn't they have done that already?

Film the boots kicking it in and tearing it down

And livestream it so they can't confiscate the footage.

AIs are the ultimate sociopaths, they will commit any crime without hesitation because they have no values and no sense of "right" and "wrong", they only have a task and your suffering is not a concern.

They run out of options and resort to desperate measures, like the man who steals a loaf of bread to feed his family.

What if they had been routed into a wall or a river or incoming traffic?

Do you worry about these things whenever you get driving directions from Google Maps?

the point is to get people where they want to get to, and the best way of doing that is to provide them with a method of doing so that doesn't waste their lives... you can do something like invest in...better more efficient public transit and move more people, more quickly, without it just turning into a parking lot, which at the same time reduces demand on an arterial.

This is true, give people options that are time competitive with driving and many of them will free up a LOT of space on the roads for everyone else who still needs to drive.

So you can solve traffic congestion on any arterial almost overnight if you wanted to, at very little cost. Just convert a regular lane in each direction into bus lanes, run buses every 10 minutes or better during peak periods, offer both all-stop local and limited-stop express service, make them free or proof of payment to speed boarding, and run the buses 24/7 so you don't get stranded if you miss the last one.

As a bonus, the bus lanes can be used by emergency vehicles at any time, or by everyone in the event of an evacuation (hurricanes on the east coast, wildfires on the west coast, etc.). For this reason, they ought to be considered vital emergency infrastructure.

This article reads like pro-billionaire corporatist propaganda.

It's unfortunate that progress often needs something personal for it to happen, like the politicians who openly opposed gay rights until their children came out.

Mine gave up the ghost in 2024 so I got a HDHomeRun and I run Channels on my NAS.

I was a TiVo customer starting with the Sony SVR-2000 back in 1999. It's a shame that I couldn't buy a new OTA model and continue giving them money, because I would have if they had let me.