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I would love to talk to somebody in law enforcement. How do they think about protecting citizen's rights -- particularly around privacy and anonymity. My perception is that just as people go through some weird transformation and become depraved ghouls when they get elected to public office, so the people who receive paychecks from law enforcement agencies seem to suddenly disregard human dignity for their own convenience and safety.

Scoresby

The privacy implications are honestly more concerning than the price tag.

PepeFan

Technology like this needs serious oversight, otherwise it's way too easy to abuse.

Etson

Mass surveillance always starts with good intentions and somehow keeps expanding.

BlockSmith

$4.5 million for four SUVs is wild. Sounds like the software cost more than the vehicles.

Troser

As for the FalcoNet system itself, the core principle people are rightfully freaking out about is the fact that it can hoover up private data from unsuspecting people en masse and in secret. I don’t consider myself a person with anything to hide, but I still hate this with a passion. Just the other day, a member of our very own staff was wrongfully detained by corporate-controlled cop tech!

And as Cybernews pointed out, the legality of such things is still questionable. In fact, the Supreme Court ruled (Chatrie v United States) “that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in location data revealing their movements, and that even short-term tracking of that kind counts as a search under the Fourth Amendment.”

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> As for the FalcoNet system itself, the core principle people are rightfully freaking out about is the fact that it can hoover up private data from unsuspecting people en masse and in secret. I don’t consider myself a person with anything to hide, but I still hate this with a passion. Just the other day, a member of our very own staff was wrongfully detained by corporate-controlled cop tech!
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> And as Cybernews pointed out, the legality of such things is still questionable. In fact, the Supreme Court ruled (Chatrie v United States) “that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in location data revealing their movements, and that even short-term tracking of that kind counts as a search under the Fourth Amendment.”