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Something I keep wondering about is if why do we even have things that can be abused by the government?
Gun registration lists cannot be used by the government to track gun owners if there is no list.
But they make a list and tell us they're not accessing it. Because it's illegal.
I don't want it to be illegal to misuse a list, I want it to be impossible.
The only way for that to happen is for there to be no list at all and not collecting any information that could be used in a list.
Not even if a non-governmental entity holds the list, government will access it.
Flock cameras are the same thing.
Because it is possible for the government to use the information to violate my rights, they will do so. "They have not done so yet!" is a very weak defense and Flock's own spokesman doesn't much reassure me that they won't enthusiastically assist government in fucking me over.
But if there are no Flock cameras...
Wouldn't it be an awful shame if certain scrap-metal-theft-prone elements of the community found out that each Flock camera contains several pounds of highly salable copper? Those cameras would be targets of theft! That would be just horrible! HORRIBLE, I say!
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