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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (33 children)

I really, really hope people don't go out en masse and destroy every single Flock camera that is unconstitutionally filming and profiling them, because it would be a terrible crime to do so. Definitely do not do this people.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (5 children)

they probably are constitutional, but only because the constitution says nothing about tge government buying data from private companies.

[–] 5318008@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

9th amendment.

It's the best amendment, despite being, legally, the most useless.

I would argue that it was meant to cover the kind of situation where a private company is given government permission to gather surveillance data from the citizenry, in exchange for access to said data.

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