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  • No, a camera can not access your phone. Ever. At all.

    Flock is a camera brand that governments use because they can has several recognition systems (face and lisense plate as examples) so camera operators know that deadlymouse drove their car along main street at 10:33am, parked in parking space 234453 at 10:35AM, and walked into Cashies at 10:36am.

    At 11:12am they left Cashies, returned to their car and drove west along 2nd Ave at 11:17am. Now scale that to a neighbourhood, a town, a city. You can see how it gets very distopian very fast.

    There have also been cases where police officers are abusing those systems to track people for personal reasons.

    People are not happy with that level of intrusion in their lives, especially when the system is used by people with a history of abusing their power and failing to report people abusing it.






  • Are we being lied to?

    Yes, most netwoth over 500 million is effectively imaginary as the value generally comes from share holding in corporations and a good chunk of those are locked from selling until a bunch of business metrics are met.

    The amount of money they actually have access to is far lower then the networth.