In a chilling sign of how far law enforcement surveillance has encroached on personal liberties, 404 Media recently revealed that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. The officer searched 6,809 different camera networks maintained by surveillance tech company Flock Safety, including states where abortion access is protected by law, such as Washington and Illinois. The search record listed the reason plainly: “had an abortion, search for female.”
If those cameras were in France they would rip them up and set them alight in a bonfire on the Champs-Élysées.
Doesn’t France have extensive camera coverage of public areas? Though for sure the French would riot were they misused in this fashion.
Which is funny since Americans always called French cowards. But who are the real cowards?
Of course the people opposing an illegitimate war are the cowards. Not those ordering poor people to die on the other side of the world.
Freedom fries indeed.
It’s Texas. Most of those people approve of this.
If it happened in LA, you’d see more than cameras on fire.