• mystik@lemmy.world
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    Can you prove that people are breaking the law by the mere collection and existence of this data?

    How about those Flock ALPR cameras showing up everywhere? Can we be sure the collected data is being used in accordance with the law?

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      They’re not just collecting it though, that’s the point - they’re publishing it on an app that is specifically made to help people evade law enforcement and to target violence at law enforcement.

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        They’re not advocating violence, just reporting a fact. (A hammer is a tool, but also a murder weapon) But you do understand the power asymmetry of an unaccountable police force, right? And just how dangerous this is to civil society? There have been multiple accounts of excessive and incorrect deportations by ICE, with no visible effort to attempt to correct those problems. People are now using the meager tools we have left to try to enforce accountability, before there is only one last tool in the toolbox.

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          They’re not advocating violence, just reporting a fact.

          lol no one believes that, not even you.

          But you do understand the power asymmetry of an unaccountable police force, right?

          How are they “unaccountable”, and how is that even relevant?