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Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around (theintercept.com)

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Police scanned Flock cameras in a single town in Illinois more than 1,200 times to investigate cases of loitering.

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[–] jrTug_2T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago

Yeah, they were already doing this with their own cameras.

I got real tired of being told to stop "loitering" by a pre-recorded voice every time I came up the alley to pick up my McDonald's order, just because someone else hates homeless people so much that they're willing to alienate their own regular customers.