"Last May, EFF reported 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."
These people really have nothing better to do?
These people really have nothing better to do?
Making examples out of some number of unlucky peasants over otherwise trivial deviance that harms nearly nobody is one of the key jobs of men at arms.
Now, they may spend more time on "real crime" or collecting taxes by other names, but make no mistake this sort of stuff is stuff they (as an agency) must do if they are to properly serve the interests of their master.
And many of these people really do need their Good Works on the force to do the saving, because God knows what they do to their wives and kids back home.
People who believe that sort of thing are, IMO, extremely evil, and worshiping an evil deity.
This feels purposefully misleading. Did they manually watch hours and hours of footage, or is this the equivalent of "I searched an online corpus of hundreds of millions of documents" (I Googled it)
The inclusion of 83,000 seems more intended to quantify the scope of the surveillance accessible to these sheriffs.