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  • You think USA government agencies never thought of using public surveillance cameras to spy on people before now?

    No. I do not.

    I think allowing a private company access to that kind of data, without any meaningful restrictions on what they can do with it, is a lot different than the current situation of ‘spy agencies can spy for the government’.

    If I’m a bad guy and I can get access to a Flock (or Palantir, fed by Flock) subscription then I can do bad guy things a lot more effectively. Can you think of any bad guys who could afford such a subscription?

    Who owns that data and what rules it falls under is important. The government needs a warrant to obtain cell-site location tracking data, but Flock can sell a subscription to obtain that same data to anybody who can clear an ACH transfer.








  • Yeah, this project is built as a docker container. The repo has instructions on starting the container. You should watch a few introductory videos on Docker so you understand the concepts and basic usage.

    Once it’s started, the machine that docker is running on will be serving a website that acts as the application. If you’re running docker on your desktop you can then open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8080/ and you will see something that looks like the demo link above.

    This doesn’t expose it to the Internet. If you’re running this on a home LAN with a router between you and the ISP’s modem (or the ISP’s modem is a router/AP) then only computers connected to your network will be able to access it. You would have to go to your router’s administration console and specifically forward a port for that service so that people on the Internet could get past your modem.