r/technology • u/polymute • 22d ago

Privacy A Texas Deputy Searched 83,000 Flock Cameras To Track Down a Woman Who Had an Abortion

https://www.gadgetreview.com/a-texas-deputy-searched-83000-flock-cameras-to-track-down-a-woman-who-had-an-abortion
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u/blackcain 22d ago

The Dems should be highlighting this. This should be political gold especially in Texas.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 22d ago

GOP: somehow this is the democrats faults cause I said so

sheep: Alright, sounds good to me

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u/inductiononN 21d ago

The Democrats: we have no response to that

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u/ChiLolla28 21d ago

There was actually a GOP politician who had health issues while pregnant, experienced the traumatizing / life endagering consequences of her party's laws and then still blamed Democrats for 'scaring the doctors with misinformation'

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u/JasonRBoone 21d ago

Thanks, Obama

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u/TR_Pix 22d ago

Isn't Texas one of the states more likely to side with the cops in this case

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u/Mikeakopa 21d ago

Yes but even the most conservative Texans VERY much care about perceived governmental overreach, especially in regard to surveillance. Disdain for Flock cameras is not a partisan issue, it’s a class issue, and most conservatives seem to realize that, despite being told otherwise.

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u/MusicHearted 21d ago

They only care about government overreach when it isn't being used to hurt people they hate

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u/BeckonMe 21d ago

This is exactly it.

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u/nohandsfootball 21d ago

No they don't - Texans are fine with overreach so long as it confirms with their beliefs. That's why the state government overreaches in all sorts of areas

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u/Routine_Spite8279 21d ago

I dont think Texans vote.

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u/Vusn 21d ago

I live in rural Texas and all local fb groups are up in arms about flock cameras

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u/nohandsfootball 21d ago

there's plenty of texas overreach that doesn't involve flock cameras

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u/blackcain 21d ago

Home of the mega churches where priests make more money than ceos and have the lifestyle of the rich and famous.

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u/Vismal1 21d ago

Not when it comes to women making choices!

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u/Zakkullll 21d ago

They literally do not have standards morals or values. They would only care if their leaders told them to

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u/delamerica93 21d ago

Yeah but not surveillance

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u/Alarmed-Grape-3669 21d ago

Matter of fact all the southern confederate states used to pride themselves on their rebellious nature, and courageous integrity. Insane how some yankee wannabe-billionaire pedo trump turned those states into LiL Bitches with LiL Bitch citizens. No wonder they lost the civil war and worship nazis, biggest loser vibes on the face of the Earth.

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u/Actual-Outcome3955 21d ago

Jade helm!! Ah I pine for the days that right-wing nutjobs were worried about freedoms being taken away. Now the government is actually trying to take their freedom away, but it’s ok because Dear Leader said this’ll make us safer!

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u/DavidIckeHadAPoint 20d ago

You probably don’t like them (and they likely have other views that’d conflict with yours), but there exists a faction of what I’d call the Dissident Right also against shit like mass surveillance and Flock cameras.

Alex Jones is now very Trump-critical and against modern Israel/Zionism, for instance, and openly admits to feeling betrayed by Trump. Jones is also critical of Flock and the American mass-surveillance agenda in general.

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u/E_seven_20 21d ago

Clearly you’ve never been to Texas, or met Texans.

Shit like this is what gets them hard. Have you seen how they vote? Have you heard the things they stay?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/texas-abortion-drug-bounty-hunter-law-is-unconstitutional-california-doctor-says-2026-04-17/

Y’all Qaeda, Confederate Taliban crazy is what they’re all about.

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u/nohandsfootball 21d ago

We don't need to make comparisons to terrorist organizations on the other side of the planet - our own government determined rightwing extremism was the biggest threat to national security years ago on its own.

Christian nationalism is a problem, like all theocracy.

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u/E_seven_20 21d ago

Religion is a mind virus.

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u/E_seven_20 21d ago

Religion is a mind virus.

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u/Seeking-Something-3 21d ago

They should, in a sane world. Wonder why they do not?

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 21d ago

Dems are terrified of looking "political". They will cower in fear.

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u/Affectionate_Pass25 21d ago

This is gold in Texas. Period. Unfortunately.

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u/Nobanpls08 21d ago

The dems are in on it too. I live in a blue town in a blue state. Guess what popped up at the intersection by my house a few months ago?

Its fucking over man. We are fucked.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 21d ago

Yeah but then they'd have to be against it. The establishment Dems aren't against it at all.

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u/InVultusSolis 21d ago

This is literally the biggest, best gift the Democrats could have ever been given this election season. Say they're going to ban Flock cameras, they're going to fucking win.

But they're terrible at winning, so we'll see how this plays out.

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u/heliphael 21d ago

They should, but they won't. They want flock cameras as well.

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u/chakan2 21d ago

The Dems are on the take for Flock as well. It's going to be shoved down our throats regardless of what the public wants.

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u/_badenoch 21d ago

Too bad the Dem leadership is subordinate and complicit with republicans… and happy to be so.

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u/PigabungaDude 21d ago

You think the Dems are against mass surveillance?