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The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke

Published September 15, 2026 · PogoWasRight

An EFF-authored piece examines how police officers justify searches of automated license plate reader databases, pointing to a case where an officer queried thousands of networks covering tens of thousands of cameras while entering a meaningless reason for the lookup. The authors argue such flippant audit entries show weak accountability over systems that track people's movements. It raises questions about oversight of location data collected on ordinary drivers.

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