Matt CagleFeb 22, 2024
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Buying residents’ geolocation data? A swarm of police drones overhead? Robot dogs? San Francisco Police could pursue any of these and much more without accountability under Prop E, EFF’s Saira Hussain tells @reasonmagazine. #NOPEonE https://reason.com/2024/02/22/proposition-e-would-make-it-easier-for-police-to-surveil-san-francisco/
Proposition E Would Make It Easier for Police To Surveil San Francisco

San Francisco's Proposition E, on the ballot March 5, would turn city residents into guinea pigs for police surveillance experiments.

Reason.com
Feb 22, 2024 at 9:35pmWeb
Show threadjloFeb 22, 2024

@eff @reasonmagazine

Yet so many people don't have a problem with the police encrypting their communications, having unreported surveillance and tracking of citizens without any oversight.

Or whatever "oversight" there is tend to be employees of the state which have a vested interest in protecting the monopoly on violence.

Show threadStatic RaiderFeb 22, 2024
@eff @reasonmagazine Another reason to stay out of the cities.
Show threadThe Green KnightFeb 23, 2024

@staticraider @eff @reasonmagazine sure, that works for now. what about when it doesn't though.

what are you going to do when the local sheriffs dept has all that neat hand-me-down tech from the cities in 20 years?

I watched two people I grew up with get murdered by the county because the cops played soldier with miltech. why? because their grandson was RUMORED to have threatened a kid at school with a gun.

support their right to privacy now, and you're assuring your right to privacy then.

Show threadStatic RaiderFeb 23, 2024

@GreenKnight23 @eff @reasonmagazine I understand where you are coming from, and I probably didn't make it clear, I do support their right to privacy. However, there is jack shit all I can do outside of supporting the eff and bringing attention to the topic. This is sanfran after all.

That is a sad story, and I'm sorry to hear about it, but sheriffs getting hand-me-downs from the military (bear cats and the like) aren't exactly the same as city wide surveillance infrastructure and logistics.

Show thread🌲🧿 "Max"t💽d🏵️n 🔎🍄Feb 23, 2024

@eff @reasonmagazine

God damn.

Fuck all of this.

#ACAB
#AbolishPolice
#AbolishTheTormentNexus

Show threadjamespthomasFeb 29, 2024
@eff by secret do you mean contracted?