I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me
their public surveillance footage of my car. Here's what I learned.
Anyone might wonder how often they are caught on police cameras that
operate 24/7. I spent a day driving, and over a month trying to get
the answer.
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Public-facing LRP cameras like Flock's, on the other hand, capture
vast amounts of data unrelated to any criminal activity. And there's
zero oversight outside of the law enforcement community. This goes
back to the idea that footage taken of me in public, non-investigative
in nature, can be considered investigative and not subject to a public information request, and concerns me.
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It's a paradigm shift where we go from having an expectation of
privacy even in public spaces to its inverse. Not only do we not have
a right to privacy in public; we don't even have a right to see
ourselves as the government and police might see us -- a set of still
moments in place and time from which they, not us, can decide what our
story is.
https://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rural-virginia-then-asked-police-to-send-me-their-public-surveillance-footage-of-my-car-heres-what-i-learned/
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