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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me (www.thedrive.com)
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A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.

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[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I daydream that this guy will threaten to sue the police and they'll come to an agreement to take down all all the cameras. The citizens will be so happy that they'll go to the state legislature and pass a law to forbid warrantless surveilence. The state will rejoice and their congressional representatives will pass a law country wide. The trend will continue globally.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

I do think eventually litigation is going to limit this Flock nonsense, but it'll be after a spectacularly violent event. Some stalker's going to kill a whole family and that'll do it.