The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke

September 14, 2026 · 3:21 pm 1 sources

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• The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke
  This article was originally published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (CC BY). · September 14, 2026 15:21
  Here's a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras, on May 7, 2025? If your answer is "I don't know," it turns out you're 100% correct. The officer left the letters "idk" in the search field…