• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Flock insists its cameras do not perform face recognition. WIRED and 404 Media found no evidence of any face-recognition capabilities in the camera’s software beyond ones included by default in the Android operating system. Those capabilities did not appear to be enabled or in active use.

    No, the servers the images are sent to do. Weasel words.

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      16 hours ago

      Ya why would they put anything in the application layer when it can be done on the back end? This is standard for anything connected to the internet as long as latency is not an issue.

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      19 hours ago

      Reminds me of that time our product caught fire because of a damaged battery, and the suits bullied the in-house regulator for an hour until he officially recorded it as not using the word “fire”

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          I don’t remember his actual title. He’s certified by whatever regulatory organization and our company needed one because of the type of devices we sold.

          But yea you basically described his role.

          We did UL listed stuff and his role, by comparison, seemed like a notary public.

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        Ah, a thermal event. The company I work for had a similar policy, but we’re now free to say the f-word again.