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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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[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 day ago

It's what they are marketed as to the public and there really isn't a visible difference between sending all data to a cloud to proccess license plates vs sending it to a cloud to track everyones movements everywhere.