Echoes from the Edge

Tracked by Design: When Public Safety Becomes Permanent Surveillance


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License plate readers now blanket entire cities, quietly turning daily movement into searchable data. Sold as public safety, systems like Flock Safety build behavioral maps without warrants, consent, or expiration. This episode dismantles the myth of neutral surveillance, exposing how tracking becomes profiling, mapping becomes control, and visibility becomes suspicion. This isn’t about crime—it’s about conditioning a population to accept being watched as normal.

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Echoes from the EdgeBy danderton2019