A police chief in Georgia used Flock's cameras to track his ex-girlfriend and her teen daughter nearly 600 times. “Don’t worry I’m not tracking you or some weird stalker shit," he texted her. After his arrest, he committed suicide.
He's one of 50 cops we found misusing Flock: 🧵
I guarantee if Best Buy brings this back for a “trial run” at some of their stores they’ll learn pretty quickly why it was such a bad decision to ever get rid of this
C’est la première fois de ma vie que je vois un fleuve de sang sous mes yeux… Et pourtant, on continue à scroll comme si ce génocide était devenu légitime
This teenage boy has been missing from his home for two years.
His family assumed he was dead.
Still, after this photo was posted by his captor, his family doesn’t know if he is dead or alive.
❗️Meta's smart glasses could be banned in Germany and the rest of the EU.
Hamburg data protection commissioner Thomas Fuchs, Meta's lead regulator in Germany, says his office tested the glasses, found the recording LED too easy to miss, and concluded that filming people in public with them breaks data protection law. It is already issuing fines.
His verdict: a camera disguised as an everyday object is illegal to sell or own in Germany. Only the Bundesnetzagentur can order that ban; it is reportedly reviewing.
France's CNIL warned about the whole category in May, and the European Data Protection Board's report on smart glasses is due this summer.
the man in the photo is my cousin Mahmoud Al Dremali. my family is in a panic trying to find info on what the zios did to him and if he’s alive. we have no information at all.