The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke
www.eff.org
With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of abuse has allowed police to treat a mass surveillance network like their own personal search engine, permitting the tracking of the movements of everyday citizens for low-level complaints, personal whims, and sometimes, seemingly, for the lols.
  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    2 小时前

    I still remember batman using cellphones for mass surveillance one time and being so disgusted by the technology they destroyed it

  • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
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    6 小时前

    What do you expect them to put. The truth? Yeah, “I’m doing this search to find my ex wife so I can murder her. This isn’t admissible in court, right?”. That’ll go great.

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
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      1 小时前

      The truth is that they’re not held accountable so the input field doesn’t matter at all, hence the sarcastic reasons entered.

    • Hirom@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 小时前

      The blog post’s conclusion suggest an answer:

      If police want the power to track a person’s movements, they must be required to convince a judge with evidence and probable cause. They should not be able to bypass the Constitution with a search for “haha.”

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 小时前

      I am not expecting them to do that, I am expecting them to make an effort at pretending to follow the rules.