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user-inactivated  ·  3665 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: All cameras are police cameras

    This permission to access the data was granted to the Police on the sole condition that they only used it when National Security was under threat. But since the data was now in their possession, the Police reclassified it as “Crime” data and now use it for general policing matters, despite the wording of the original permission. As this data is not considered to be “personal data” within the definition of the law, the Police are under no obligation to destroy it, and may retain their ongoing record of all vehicle movements within the city for as long as they desire.

Awesome. Civilization is broken when a suburban cube-farmer can look at the hill-billy/hill folk stratagems for survival and think, "privacy and a jug to blow into? sounds not to bad."