138 pointsby lorecore5 hours ago16 comments
  • DrJokepu2 hours ago
    There’s something wrong with that guy. Quite apart from the gross privacy violation issues. Most of us didn’t even know what Flock was before the Superbowl and now there is this massive public controversy around it, and every time he opens his mouth he makes it worse. The board needs to replace him ASAP.
    • roosterIllusi0nan hour ago
      Most companies are controlled by CEOs that are on the board and pay themselves a boatload of free stock. The CEOs make sure their exit requires paying them to leave.
  • water-data-dude3 hours ago
    I feel like setting up cameras pointed at the houses of influential people with public web feeds might help push some privacy reform.
    • frollogaston3 hours ago
      Or make all the Flock feeds public. Presently I have to assume all of these can and will be hacked by someone, or abused at a mass scale, so better not put them anywhere that could be a problem.
  • darrylb425 hours ago
    I don't really understand how blurring out a house adds privacy. Looking around my neighborhood on Google street view I sometimes find houses that are blurred, now that otherwise normal looking house is now suspicious. Because I am physically close I can just look at the house if I wanted to. Someone "special" lives there.
    • schiffern5 hours ago
      I'm confused. If he has nothing to hide he has nothing to fear, right?

      Seems like some Good Samaritan should set up a mobile pole camera (or twelve) outside his house 24/7. Rest easy, it's all being done for his own safety!

      • jordanb5 hours ago
        The guy gives me unhinged stalker vibes whenever he does an interview.
    • b3lvedere2 hours ago
      It does enhance curiosity. As an experiment i once requested Google Street view to blur my previous home. It really stands out being the only blurred house in the entire area. And i can’t undo it either :)
    • NewJazz4 hours ago
      now that otherwise normal looking house is now suspicious

      Mysterious? Yes. Suspicious? I wouldn't think that. Plenty of houses in my neighborhood are blurred. I don't think much about it. And yes, I can just walk over and look. But I'm their neighbor. Not someone megameters away...

    • everdrive2 hours ago
      "Hey, this house between 101 Main st. and 105 st. is blurred, how will we ever find it?"
    • frollogaston4 hours ago
      You only know what the front of the house looks like.
      • ascorbic4 hours ago
        So does Street View
        • frollogaston4 hours ago
          Oh, turns out you can't blur the satellite images. Then yeah idk how this helps.

          Edit: Well maybe you aren't a target to begin with, but mass scanning can make you one. Like if you park some expensive car out front and someone far away checks all houses with expensive cars. It's a bit far-fetched, but there also aren't that many reasons not to blur your house unless the concern is they only target blurred houses.

  • bastawhiz4 hours ago
    Didn't this man just go on record saying the public needs to "compromise" on privacy?
    • nxm42 minutes ago
      public already does on multiple levels - it's just to what extent
  • spl75727 minutes ago
    What a futile and stupid idea.
  • higginsniggins5 hours ago
    Flock ceo attempts to stop people using online photo system from stocking him…

    Hmmmm…

    • dessimus5 hours ago
      I mean, I wouldn't want to be boiled into a soup or stew either.
    • frollogaston4 hours ago
      Those images aren't publicly viewable like Google Maps, at least not easily.
  • Borborygymusan hour ago
    I guess they must be doing something wrong.
  • deepc4life5 hours ago
    I'd hope he did! I hope all of you do to. This isn't information you want so easily publicly available. It's a pretty easy request.
    • cheese_van4 hours ago
      It is an easy request. When the announcement blurring was made available, I made the request just to see if it they would do it - and they did!

      Now, if anyone in the neighborhood asks me, "Why is your house blurred?" I reply, "Why are you asking? Is anyone asking questions about me? What did they look like?" (well, that's what I plan on replying if anyone asks)

      • everybodyknows3 hours ago
        It's easy? How please do we get Zillow to do that?

        Zillow publishes, right now, interior shots of my house -- put up years ago for a sale listing. I have claimed the place as mine, but Zillow won't let me take them down.

        Zillow allowed inserting new photos in the list, so I did: dozens of big wildlife photos. Considered a raging fire scene, or maybe a crack den, but then of course I might some day want to sell ...

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    • frollogaston4 hours ago
      Yeah seeing this article was the reminder I needed to blur mine rn.
    • lorecore5 hours ago
      And yet there’s no way to get yourself blurred in Flock videos.
      • jordanb4 hours ago
        The first key feature of the Panopticon is that the guards can observe the inmate at all times and he can't hide.

        The second key feature is that the inmate can't observe the guards. He can't know who they are and can't even know if they're paying attention to him or not.

      • deepc4life16 minutes ago
        for now I guess we just need to wear blue man group outfits....
      • uberman5 hours ago
        Yes, an here in lies the hypocrisy of our times where tech titans can have their information removed from public data sources (anyone remember the guy tracking Musk's plane?) while amassing staggering quantities of data about everyone else. Then have the gall to call for a "compromise" on their collection and selling of this data and our privacy.
  • xvxvx5 hours ago
    Tells you all you need to know about Flock.
  • Freedom24 hours ago
    As someone who may or may not have a Flock (YC 2017) watching me as I type this, I'm glad that it exists. I can now feel "Flock Safe and Secure™", knowing that the compromise I've made has been worth it.
  • josefritzisherean hour ago
    Privacy for me but not for thee
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  • marksullyan hour ago
    remember Barbra Streisand?
  • metalmanan hour ago
    hope the rest of this guys life rhymes with "blurred out"
  • thrownaway5614 hours ago
    People are so childish nowadays. The fact that things escalate to the point.
    • Micrococonut4 hours ago
      Indeed. This mass surveillance should have been stopped long ago.
    • newspaper14 hours ago
      The Flock CEO just this week told the US public that it needs to "compromise" on their right to privacy. I'm glad things are escalating, we need every single one of these cameras taken down.