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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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[โ€“] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Only if your not white though. Or white, but wearing a hoodie because hoodies are scary.

[โ€“] MangoCats@feddit.it 10 points 16 hours ago

You know, it's really about poor... black is shorthand for poor, so it looks like racism, but underneath it all, they'll abuse poor people just like they abuse black people.