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Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around

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Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around

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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago

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Records from a single town in Illinois reveal more than 1,200 Flock searches investigate cases of loitering.

Police scanned Flock cameras in a single town in Illinois more than 1,200 times to investigate cases of loitering.

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