- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
Proton is hosting a public map showing more than 300,000 Flock surveillance devices across the United States, preserving access to a research project whose creator faces legal threats and intimidation. The map draws on an inventory obtained by cybersecurity researcher Joshua Michael from Flock’s own systems. According to Proton, it includes more than 170,000 cameras …
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the July bulletin urged officers to watch for suspicious behavior, including unusual questions
It also listed media attendance […] among potential public safety concernsPlease stand back quietly as we bring Fascism to your country.
Unlike crowdsourced projects such as DeFlock, Michael’s inventory comes from company records rather than sightings submitted by volunteer
Huh.
Flock left their ArcGIS data open and he just downloaded all of it.
US government will probably call that hacking since they didnt mean for someone to download it even though it was plainly there.
LOL their blatant disregard for security bites them again.
It’s missing a camera on a bridge nearby that other maps have.
Fuck yeah
Love to know what the “legal” part of the threat is. These items are in public locations. You know, why they say there’s no expectation of privacy for us. It works both ways.
Per the article this is related to camera locations obtained from flock themselves when they failed to secure things properly. The publicly maintained “deflock” cameras in openstreetmap are on extremely solid legal ground.
That’s the fun part, it doesn’t!
So, we know where they are. Now what do we do with that information?
Now we make them not be where they are.
Also, I hear they’re full of RAM and meth.
Love this. Hold every company accountable, including proton.
This is a win now but there’s nothing keeping any company doing good for people, we’ve got to keep them accountable.
I made a proton account and quickly became disgusted at how many times the email webclient begged me to link my “GMail” to it. Like, They’d only provide the advertised storage space if I proved that every email to a google account would be automatically forwarded to Proton.
What if I don’t want to do a deal with the devil just to use your service?
This is what I remember of my experience around a year ago. I deleted my Proton account within a month. (I <3 Disroot.org)
Yup. This is nice, but fuck proton and their crypto bullshit.
Doesn’t hurt to have redundant maps in case one gets taken down.
Yeah. Nice and so on. I’d rather have a provider not getting involved with politics, no matter which stance, thanks.
How about a privacy company promoting privacy? Whether or not it’s “political” depends entirely on whether or not you choose to apply that perspective. They’re doing the same thing they’ve always done, and I’m pretty sure the motivation is to maintain their rep/get paid rather than exert influence somehow
Well then fight the core issue: the legislation which allows such cameras. It is okay to fight for privacy so that my service can continue. I am not okay to use my funds to create maps that literally have nothing to do with what proton provides. Fuck that.
Legislation is not only a legal process. There’s public awareness, democratic mandate. Laws don’t become laws when nobody is interested. Sometimes the people pushing for it are weathly elite, sometimes it’s the little guy.
Engaging with public initiatives and such, even if it’s slightly performative, to send a message is fighting for the cause.
I mean… It’s not “your” money, they didn’t create the map, and it seems pretty relevant to the rest of their services to me. Would be lit if they put out a privacy respecting navigation app with avoiding em as a feature, I’m about it. Kinda hard to see your take here as genuine, not sure what motivates it
I just want to have a working e-mail service. As soon as a provider gets political, the big trouble including lawsuits start, risking getting bankrupt, making me pay for all of that, with the potential of having no value at the end, as the service has to shut down.
I absolutely see the need to provide information about the flock cameras. I don’t see the need for Proton to do that.
Gotcha. I first heard about them through their VPN service, see privacy itself as their core product, and email/storage/calendar etc as very logical ways of delivering that same product that navigation or map data in general would be a great addition to. Being a privacy provider in a system so focused on surveillance and manipulation seems pretty “political” in the way you’re using the term no matter what. A proton abstaining from politics in that sense would just be google. Your definition of political seems to be related to how much friction is generated with the establishment, and imo their willingness to provide that friction is exactly what people are paying them for. If all you care about is a working email service, gmail is great. Better even, not to mention free.
Especially since proton is playing both sides at the moment. It comes across as attention seeking.
Are they playing both sides?
The CEO is a right wing trumper that keeps doubling and tripling and quadrupling down.
At the moment? I believe we all remember what the CEO said when Trump was inaugurated.
This is just a stupid game and I wish they would invest more time into making their products better.
Tell me you don’t know that the word politics means without telling me you don’t know that the word politics means.
I guess that was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
