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When Cities Remove the Cameras

Municipal license-plate networks like Flock promised safety and delivered data breaches and privacy fights, and these books explain the surveillance economics, civil liberties, and procurement failures behind the reversals.

Optimized for books about Understanding the privacy, policing, and governance issues raised by municipal adoption and removal of automated license-plate and camera surveillance systems..

6 booksSeptember 17, 2026
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