Backlash to Flock cameras has been growing in recent months, but the surveillance equipment company isn't the only one that may be operating in your neighborhood.
‘cheap, Chinese surveillance machines on our streets’
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A Tennessee county commissioner told a Flock Safety representative that the company's CEO deserves to be "hanged publicly for treason", and the remark went viral as governors in Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania move to shut the cameras down. Kingsport Commissioner Joe Carr made the statement at an August 13 work session in the east Tennessee […] The post Tennessee commissioner calls for Flock Safety CEO to face treason charges as states move to ban surveillance cameras appeared first on American Almanac .
A Tennessee county commissioner told a Flock Safety representative that the company's CEO deserves to be "hanged publicly for treason", and the remark went viral as governors in Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania move to shut the cameras down. Kingsport Commissioner Joe Carr made the statement at an August 13 work session in the east Tennessee city, addressing a Flock Safety representative directly while the company faces a nationwide revolt over its network of automated license plate reader cameras. The meeting's leader cut Carr off immediately, telling him, "Mr. Carr, we are not going to threaten violence to anybody." But the clip spread fast, and Carr told Fox News Digital he stands behind the substance of what he said, if not the…Open
Independent journalist Brian Kreb said that he had discovered the site after it was advertised on a Russian cybercrime forum, with his own drivers' license being offered as a free sample.
They want crimes covered up. We just want to be left alone
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The department granted agencies 30 days to remove the cameras, which includes those made by Flock, before the state takes them down.