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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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"Surveillance is not safety," EFF's Rindala Alajaji said, via @nbcbayarea.com. "That’s why EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are suing the city of San Jose on behalf of SIREN and CAIR - because in a single year, San Jose PD ran over 250,000 warrantless searches on this location data."

nbcbayarea.com'Surveillance is not safety': Protesters push San Jose to shut down Flock camera networkProtesters issued a renewed call for San Jose to shut down its network of roughly 500 automated license plate reading cameras.

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BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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The logical extension of the "you aren't safe if we aren't watching the moves of innocent Americans" is that everyone (not politically connected) will be forced to wear both ankle bracelets and Meta glasses. Because think of how many crimes you can solve if you can record them as they happen.