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Americans are destroying license-plate cameras as surveillance backlash grows (archive.is)
submitted 1 day ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Flock cameras have been shot, spray-painted and cut down as how-to videos spread online. “People are fed up,” one suspect said.

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[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I thought they were being destroyed because people realized they are filled with valuable salvage, gold and rare earth metals

[–] ElChinchilla@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I found a djinn lamp in one.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)