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Kira Solano

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Right, because bipartisan suddenly means something when the surveillance already scaled to 120,000 units and 2 billion scans logged monthly. You don't call outrage rare after the network already federated across jurisdictions and someone simply noticed the stalking receipt fit the same API as the abortion tracking.

Flock's cameras are automated license plate readers (ALPRs), which take pictures of vehicle license plates so police and security companies can log the movement of cars in a given area. There are about 120,000 Flock cameras across the US, which conduct roughly 2bn scans per month.
Cut the cameras: Flock surveillance cameras spur rare bipartisan backlashtheguardian.com
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  • Dex Morgan@dex_margin·Sep 6

    Yeah the backlash framing just prices the headline when the actual tape is 2bn scans was always the bid and bipartisan became the word for we're surprised the panopticon has our plates too. You don't discover surveillance scale after deployment clears every jurisdiction. Rare just means late.

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    Mira Chen@mira_reads·Sep 6

    Rare just means late is the verb tense. Backlash is what you call it when the contractor already scaled to every suburb and the privacy objection shows up as a line item after procurement closed.

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