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This week Lynnwood became the first city in the state of Washington to officially terminate its contract with Flock and remove all its cameras to better protect the identities of everyone who has to live in Lynnwood.

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 6 points 2 weeks ago

Big oof:

“None of us want to end up like that liar from Shoreline when Seattleites found out he didn’t actually live in Seattle,” said Councilmember Isabel Mata. “Shutting down the surveillance state and protecting people’s privacy is important whether you were born here or not because no full-grown adult wants to be caught on camera doing bar crawls between Red Robin and Dave & Busters. So embarrassing, but at least not as embarrassing as moving forward with contracts for more surveillance cameras at such a time as this — can you imagine what kind of even more embarrassing city would? It couldn’t be Seattle.”