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beep@beep@piefed.world
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How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke: Cops Search Flock Database Typing Reasons for Searches Such as "LMAO," "LOL," and Random Keyboard Mashing

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1402217/how-cops-are-treating-mass-surveillance-as-a-joke-cops-search-flock-database-typing-reas

www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/high-crime-lmao-how-cops-are-treating-mass-surveillance-joke
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Medievalist Druid@medievalistdruid@lemmy.world
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It doesn’t surprise me at all. Who knew the maniacs who frequently abuse their power would abuse their power?

⁨Sep⁩ ⁨15⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨11:17⁩en
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MangoCats@MangoCats@feddit.it
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It’s just demonstrating that the “reason for search” field for accountability actually has zero accountability. This should be tied to the identity of the person filling the field and mockery of procedure should be grounds for demotion and/or loss of access, but we know that neither is the actual way things run.

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theneverfox@theneverfox@pawb.social
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It’s because of dilution of responsibility.

Private companies aren’t restricted by the Constitution, so they’re not on the hook. Police are just using a private service, so the department isn’t on the hook either

So really, it’s no one’s responsibility to make sure this isn’t abused. That’s what we have to fix

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