A leaked corporate playbook is teaching police departments how to sell mass surveillance to the public. The public keeps reading the script back to them, torn to shreds, in the comments.
When the Coral Springs Police Department in Florida decided to get ahead of resident anger over its Flock Safety license plate cameras, it posted a friendly “myth vs. fact” list assuring everyone that the cameras don’t track them personally and that access is tightly controlled. The post drew more than 24,700 comments, almost none of them grateful, with residents asking whether the department had let the vendor write its homework and pointing out the obvious irony that the only people qualified to promise you aren’t being tracked are the ones doing the tracking. Facebook itself eventually slapped a Community Note on the department’s post, informing readers that it hadn’t actually addressed their concerns, and the department had to hold a live public Q&A just to make the story go away.
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