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Innerworld@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day ago

San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, up from 93 in February 2025

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San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, up from 93 in February 2025

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Innerworld@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day ago
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SF’s crime collapsed. So did its resistance to surveillance
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San Francisco has 98 police drones, 400 AI license plate readers, and a billionaire-funded real-time crime center. Crime is down 44%. Nobody seems to mind — yet. But experts say the city is running an experiment with no control group and no plan to slow down.
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    “Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.”

    • Niven, Larry. “Cloak of Anarchy.” <u>Analog</u> Mar. 1972. 26 Mar 2026 <<a href=“https://web.archive.org/web/20060929192027/http://www.larryniven.org/stories/cloak_of_anarchy.shtml”>https://web.archive.org/web/20060929192027/http://www.larryniven.org/stories/cloak_of_anarchy.shtml</a>>.

    Yeah, it’s a story set in San Diego, not San Francisco, but no science fiction fan will fail to make the connection. It’s all there: hippies, repurposed freeways, drones, anarchists, gangs.

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