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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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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you loitering if you’re walking the dog? What about if you’re smoking outside? What about if you’re sitting on a bench in a park?

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It depends. Is someone richer than you upset about it? Then it's loitering.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Checkmate. I guess I’m done for today.