Police are using the surveillance state to stalk "love interests" because there really is no difference between the part of my job where I fight state surveillance and the part where I fight domestic abuse: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/02/flock-police-surveillance-tech-birds-iran-press-freedom
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@evacide Oh, yeah. My uncle was a Sheriff's Deputy in Sacramento County, CA. I _continue_ to hear about things he's done which horrify me.
Just because they're cops, doesn't mean they should be trusted. In my experience, it's quite the opposite.
@evacide Enraging. The fact that city tax dollars (including mine) is paying for this makes my blood boil.
@evacide **shocked Pikachu face**
@evacide it should be widely known the statistics of how many cops are known abusers, criminals, and stalkers. I have friends who have been followed home by cops who pulled them over for no reason but to look at their IDs and then stalk them. Wish I was making that up, but who is a woman supposed to call when they are abused by the authorities? This is a real everyday problem of many Americans, who do you call or trust anymore?
@evacide Reason 163474 for why domestic abuse is the best indicator for other/future anti-social behaviour and should bar abusers from positions of power and authority.
@evacide There have been reports of uk police officers using the police national computer for personal reasons since the PNC was commissioned
I see nothing has changed
@evacide usually every single device access is logged. That's the only hope I have when I look into the black holes of cameras feeding the anonymous mass of technocratic surveillance phantasies.
Are cops aware that most operations are logged?
Are there efforts to achieve more transparency for civil society "who accessed which surveillance device on what purpose in front of my house"?
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@evacide Abuse of law enforcement data is always happening because a lot of people have access and the temptation is huge. So it’s pretty important for a democracy that whenever someone is caught, the consequences are swift, severe, and public.
@evacide I remember during the Snowden revelations it came out that such behavior was internally nicknamed LOVEINT at the NSA.
@evacide it gets worse. Something that happened in my city last year. Abuser got a restraining order, the kind where both abuser and victim are tracked by the police to detect violations. Guess what happened next.
For the slower readers out there: the other policemen used it to track the victim and send her location to the abuser.
@evacide so you’re saying that even if my local city restricts its PD from sharing data with the feds, they might (are likely to) use this spyware for stalking!? (Not that one should trust that the data will be kept from the feds)
