When prompted to enter a reason for searching Flock surveillance data, some…

The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke

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.