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Americans are destroying license-plate cameras as surveillance backlash grows (archive.is)
submitted 2 days 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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[–] ElChinchilla@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Just like any camera could be a license plate camera, however most cameras are not linked to a vast network specifically designed to trace identifiers and support soft suppression of individual freedoms. The next tea party is going to look weird.