FBI says utility pole surveillance cam locations must be kept secret
This is pretty shocking and should be more widely publicized. A government agency covertly spying on the public with no warrants, no disclosures, and a fundamental lack of accountability rarely ends well. Even worse, both parties and most of the state and federal government bureaucracy are in fundamental agreement about the need for a national security state, only disagreeing about some of the implementation details.<p>People in tech are in the best position to create some pushback on this, be it through lobbying as stubbornly single-issue voters, or creating some direct (legal) technical counter-measures. It&#x27;s not that hard to tell which ones are bugged if you inspect the light poles closely, and threatening to imprison people who take pictures of public lightpoles would almost certainly create more backlash than they&#x27;re willing to risk.