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For the last decade, Farivar has lived in Oakland, California. And since that time, surveillance technology has gotten more widespread and invasive. The city’s license plate readers now exist on 33 different OPD vehicles, capturing the date, time and GPS location of every vehicle seen. Through the public records process, Farivar received over 4 million license plate reader records. Beyond LPRs, Oakland, and other cities, employ the secretive cellphone spying tool known as a cell-site simulator. These devices are employed with little judicial or public scrutiny, in possible violation of the 4th Amendment. The tools that cops are routinely using point to a near-future where we will all have to give up data about ourselves to the states’ drones, facial recognition scanners and maybe DNA collection devices, with little recourse.