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#1818 Flock Cameras, ICE, and the Surveillance State Targeting Everyone
Air Date: 8/25/2026
Today we explore the resistance to Flock cameras and mass surveillance as a whole. Communities across the country are voting to cancel their tracking-camera contracts, others are filing records requests to drag secret police deals into daylight, and some people stopped waiting and went out at night with wire cutters.
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