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> The Department of Agriculture, for instance, said it wants to use it to monitor live surveillance feeds at its facilities and send an alert if it spots any f
by erellsworth 5y ago
> The Department of Agriculture, for instance, said it wants to use it to monitor live surveillance feeds at its facilities and send an alert if it spots any faces also found on a watch list.
Ah yes, nothing dystopian about the fucking Department of Agriculture keeping watch lists.
- rglover 5y ago"Took him down as part of Operation Corn Maze. He was growing illegal strawberries in three counties. Big score."
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoYou kid but there was a story some years back about some authoritarian dragnet in Austrailia being used to facilitate prosecution of pork products distributors who committed some mundane crime regarding weights and measures. I can't find the link but I'm 99% sure it was posted on HN.
- yhoneycomb 5y agoNot sure how that’s a mundane crime when it’s literally stealing
- anonAndOn 5y agoFake USDA inspected meat products? Grind a mad cow into your hamburger supply chain and watch billions of dollars evaporate.
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- Jxl180 5y agoJust like the US Postal Service, The USDA has uniformed law enforcement and special agents who investigate crimes concerning the USDA, similarly to US Postal Inspectors who investigate mail fraud and other mail-related crimes.
- polishdude20 5y agoImmigrants. They are watching for illegal immigrants. Many of them work on farms.
- 34679 5y agoIf The Department of Agriculture cared at all about illegal immigration, they would go out today and arrest or shut down the largest employers of illegal immigrants.
- mikeyouse 5y agoNah, the cameras are far more likely to be at the fertilizer storage depots with a watchlist for terror suspects.. US ag. wouldn't exist without immigrants so they have very little incentive to "watch" for them.
- polishdude20 5y agoOh that makes more sense. Id like to retract my previous more inflammatory baseless accusation.