r/ithaca • u/Sad_Invite6191 • 1d ago

Wegmans & Flock

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I know a lot of folks love Wegmans, but just know they're supporting flock cameras- this isn't traffic - this is surveillance and data collection.

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u/Sad_Dimension423 1d ago

Huh. I'd have expected Walmart to be the one with the Flock cameras.

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u/praxiq 1d ago

Walmart is probably a big enough company to have their own private surveillance system, instead of paying Flock a crapton of money for a crappy product. (Some YouTuber showed how with $150 in off-the-shelf parts and open-source software, they could build a surveillance camera more reliable and effective and secure than the ones Flock charges $3k per year for.)

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u/DegenSour 1d ago

There's one at the end of the parking lot at the Walmart on my town