Flock CEO doubles down: a crime-free society requires giving up your privacy
bundie · hn · 2026-10-15
Flock's CEO publicly argued that a crime-free society requires giving up privacy, doubling down on the company's mass-surveillance stance. The HN thread debates whether sweeping surveillance in the name of safety is justified and where such surveillance infrastructure should end.
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