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submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

The government is busting out the big guns to surveil protesters, according to trackers.

As Trump’s shock troops invade Los Angeles, his administration is using every tool at its disposal to attack and surveil the political protests taking place in the city’s streets. That apparently includes the use of a Predator drone, which 404 Media reports was spotted by an aviation tracker as it zoomed over the city.

The outlet notes that, over the weekend, an MQ-9 Reaper flew over the political protests happening in the city. Onlookers suspected the drone’s presence based on public flight data that picked up movements of a mysterious aircraft:

One aircraft with no callsign, making it initially difficult to determine its model or which agency it belongs to, flew above the areas of the protests in Paramount and downtown Los Angeles on Sunday. The data showed this aircraft flying in distinctive hexagonal patterns, and 404 Media observed it fly afterwards to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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[-] jupiter2643@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago

Christ. So many options.. With security cameras and license plate readers and liveview trailers and ring doorbells without warrant and palantir and now drones that can just "watch an entire city" from the air and "see everything". But who needs to decide, they've got it all!

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes and that is the only real saving grace, the capacity to record at what appears to be infinite fidelity is only really a destabilizing force until the ambitions of the surveillance apparatus exceeds the secretarial capacity to make sense of it at a geometric rate.

Kind of like an LLM decaying into slop...

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