Cross posted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/44409906
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/44409898
In case you were trying to rearrange your schedule to attend this important meeting, it has once again been removed from the agenda and there is a possibility the entire criminal justice subcommittee meeting will be cancelled (again).
Keep emailing your council person, checking for updates, and keep spreading information about this. There is way too much crazy stuff to keep up with, and they definitely don't make it easy to follow what is actually going on in your own city, but the ordinance itself is still on the table.
This is not inevitable as long as we refuse to let it go, and refusing to accept this is not "standing in the way of progress." Progress is when society benefits from the technology it controls, not the other way around. If we have no say in how this first of its kind technology is being used in our own community, then who is controlling it and who is benefitting?
You think flock isn't planning to implement facial recognition once all the cameras are in place? This isn't some future problem, it's happening as we speak.
True, it'll probably just be Flock pivoting to each new dystopian surveillance technology the geriatric judges haven't learned about yet. The infrastructure can always be repurposed.