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> it looked a little different once he was actually responsible for people’s safety.

That seems highly disingenuous or just ignorant. We publicly had this problem starting in the 1990s. The NSA used to have a program that would capture data but then encrypt it and protect it from random access. They discontinued that program and instituted a new one that had zero privacy protections in it.

This was right at the turn when the "war on terror" started. Which was the excuse then used to abandon the better program for the egregious one since it was projected to be better for this particular use case. It's debatable whether that was true or not.

> Flock cameras or walk into grocery stores

Record it if you want. Law enforcement, at any level, should require an actual warrant to access it in any form. This isn't a binary. You can enhance security and privacy at the same time.



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