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beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago

How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke: Cops Search Flock Database Typing Reasons for Searches Such as "LMAO," "LOL," and Random Keyboard Mashing

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How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke: Cops Search Flock Database Typing Reasons for Searches Such as "LMAO," "LOL," and Random Keyboard Mashing

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beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago
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The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke
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With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of abuse has allowed police to treat a mass surveillance network like their own personal search engine, permitting the tracking of the movements of everyday citizens for low-level complaints, personal whims, and sometimes, seemingly, for the lols.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1402217/how-cops-are-treating-mass-surveillance-as-a-joke-cops-search-flock-database-typing-reas

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    The thumbnail reminds me of Patapon.

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      Maybe cute surveillance could fool more people into being okay with it.

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        Pata pata patapon! Gotcha gotcha now you’re gone!

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