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Peter Girnus 🦅
@gothburz
Essayist. Satirist. Hacker. Confessions from the people running the systems you live with. Essays, films and commentary on tech, power and being human.
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3 deputies used the door to stalk their exes. You called it a scandal. I called it Tuesday. We labeled it a "policy violation," shipped a privacy toggle (off by default, I set the default), got a bonus. I told you the blind spot was hand-designed. I did it beautifully; I'll be SVP by the end of Q3.
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I am the VP of Community Safety at Flock Safety. We have cameras in more than 6,000 towns. One of them photographed your car this morning. You did not see it. Being unseen is the product, and I am very good at my job. We call it a public safety network. I chose those words myself. I am prouder of the words than of the cameras. Public, because we put it on your street. Safety, because that word ends the argument before it starts. Network, because the cameras are not the product. The network is. A single camera is a witness. Six thousand towns of cameras talking to each other is a memory, and a country that cannot forget is a country you can search. Here is the math I love. One town buys ten cameras and can see its own roads. But we let the towns share. So one town buys ten cameras and can see the whole country, and every town believes it got a discount. I keep the map on my office wall. Every town lit up, every road between them threaded together. It looks like a nervous system. I did not build a nervous system. I sold ten thousand tiny ones and let them find each other, which is better, because no single person meant to. Your plate, your time, your direction, logged in a place you have never been, searchable by an officer three states away who has never heard of you and does not need a warrant to look. He types the plate. The country remembers where you have been. I do not tolerate that line in the demo. I lead with it. People ask whether we hand the data to immigration enforcement. We do not. I want to be precise, because precision is the part I am proudest of. We do not give anyone anything. Our customers do. We built the door, sold the key, wrote the manual, and left the room. There is no fingerprint on the search except the one that pulled the trigger, and I made certain that finger was never mine. A councilwoman asked me directly, in a public meeting. Does this reach the feds. I said Flock does not share data with federal agencies. It is true. Her police department does. She voted yes. She thanked me for my transparency. I put it in a case study. A man wrote in and asked us to delete his data. I told him, honestly, that we do not have his data. We have everyone's data, and somewhere inside it is a shape the size of him, and you cannot delete a shape out of a crowd. He said that was terrifying. I wrote it on a slide. Some of you have started tearing the cameras off the poles. I have seen every video. I love them. You cannot ratio a pole. We replace it in a week, and the new camera photographs the ladder you left leaning against it, and now we have your truck too. There is a lawsuit. Millions of drivers. They say we track people who did nothing wrong. I do not fear the allegation. It is the product description, and it is the finest one we have ever written. Here is the part I am proud of. We did not build a surveillance system. We built 6,000 of them, taught them to talk, called the talking safety, and sold you the microphone at a bulk rate. We did not put you on a list. We built a country where the list already has you, and left exactly one decision for the living to make, which is who gets to type your name. My own car is on it. I could take it off. I never will. I want to be found. Being found is safety, and I believe in the product. We do not sell your location. We built the door. We sold the key. We were looking the other way when it opened, and it was not an accident. Designing that blind spot by hand was the entire job, and I did it beautifully.
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