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Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 day ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

iirc, paintball marker is slightly translucent, right? So maybe like...a sticker?

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Some of the cameras by me are a little high up, which is why initially I thought paintball.

I bet I could fly a drone with a trash bag over it though.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 7 hours ago

One of those spray-can extension poles would probably work pretty well.

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

My neighbor used to put marbles in his paintball gun

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Must have been a scary ghost that disabled those spy cameras.