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Rep. Massie introduced legislation to eliminate federal funding for Flock automatic license plate readers. The move targets the mass surveillance camera network used by police nationwide.
Rep. Thomas Massie introduced legislation to eliminate federal funding for Flock automatic license plate readers, the camera network used by police departments nationwide for mass surveillance.
Flock cameras are one of the most scalable mass surveillance tools in the country because they're relatively cheap and easy to deploy. By removing federal funding, Massie's bill targets the money that makes them affordable for local police. This is one of the few pieces of legislation that has genuine bipartisan skepticism—civil libertarians and privacy advocates on the left, civil liberties conservatives on the right. The proposal targets the financial infrastructure of the surveillance network rather than banning it outright, which is a more pragmatic approach than trying to regulate technology after it's deployed.
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