The Flock in your pocket

Flock cameras are everywhere. They're anti-human (the term is misanthropic), they're anti-freedom (oppressive), and given this site's predominantly US-based audience, they're un-American (unpatriotic).Flock cameras are everything the conspiracy theorists incoherently yammered on about with microchips in vaccines. Flock cameras are the highly visible, hyper-local infrastructure of oppression.But what if I told you that Flock cameras are only an evolution of that infrastructure? Your Amazon Alexa, your Ring doorbell cameras, the Nest thermostat controlling your furnace, the digital "smart meter" that regulates the electricity to your home, the online banking you use to manage your money, the phone that never leaves your side... even the apps you let run in the background.Make no mistake about it: Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, quite possibly even the software that runs your WiFi router – they're willing participants in a global network of extreme, invisibile, ubiquitous surveillance.…