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Geez, streetlights ARE surveillance technologies. They get put in so people can see each other and surveille them. And what do they suggest police are going to
by ianbicking 4y ago
Geez, streetlights ARE surveillance technologies. They get put in so people can see each other and surveille them.
And what do they suggest police are going to do? Track the movement of political dissidents? Ain't no one got time for that kind of spy shit. People need to stop imagining they live in a dystopian movie.
The one realistic use/abuse I can see now is tracking homeless people and keeping them from stopping anywhere overnight. Still way too much effort for most police, but maybe in some gated-community-wannabe location.
- dec0dedab0de 4y agoGeez, streetlights ARE surveillance technologies. They get put in so people can see each other and surveille them. The article makes that point too, but from the perspective that they have always been bad. Which I find almost as absurd as thinking it's ok to have disguised electronic surveillance run by the government and deployed at scale.