California cops are illegally sharing Flock automatic license plate reader (ALPR) data with other agencies out of state, who in turn are performing searches for ICE.

Sunshine (she/her) · edit-2 4 days ago

Tramort@programming.dev · 4 days ago

Fire the officers doing this

jonne@infosec.pub · 4 days ago

Out of a cannon, into the sun.

🦄🦄🦄@feddit.org · 4 days ago

ZDL@lazysoci.al · 4 days ago

U.S. Cops? Breaking the law with impunity? But that’s unpossible!

ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf · 4 days ago

B-b-but they’re doing it for the survival of the master race

ZDL@lazysoci.al · 3 days ago

Oh, how nice! But the Chinese don’t need their help.

Mac@mander.xyz · 4 days ago

A-
and i cannot stress this enough:
-CAB

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 4 days ago

wat!

grue@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

Completely unrelated fun fact: ALPR systems are just cameras attached to a computer, and cameras are pretty fragile.

pulsewidth@lemmy.world · edit-2 4 days ago

But how can this be?

All the police procedural dramas I’ve watched emphatically paint them as the good guys that have evolved above their problematic past.

/s because Internet