Don’t Trust the Flock

As this Flock saga has gone on locally, we’ve been seeing an effort by Eugene and Springfield police to try soothing the concerns of the public by promising to lock down data sharing to just Eugene/Springfield or Lane County — as if this actually stops the federal government from getting its hands on our local Flock data.

Let’s get something straight here: There is no safe version of Flock! EPD Chief Chris Skinner has been forced to admit that if a federal subpoena came for the Flock data to be used for something like immigration enforcement, they would be forced to hand it over. Really, Flock would be forced to hand it over because once again, it’s ultimately Flock’s data, not EPD’s, and they can hold it for much longer than 30 days.

Not to mention the countless i

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