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Surveillance Tech Companies Compose Self-Promoting Press Releases for Cops That Media Lazily Regurgitates
by Matthew T. Clarke
There is nothing new about corporations that produce technology designed to enable law enforcement surveillance (snoop tech) composing press releases for law enforcement that promote both the brand and the equipment. There is also nothing new about media quoting at length from the snoop-tech-provided releases as ...
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