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But how do you fight back not against municipalities - but corporations deploying these?

Sure, you might get your small town to remove them throughout their own land, but Lowes and Home Depot will still set up their own Flock cameras on their own contracts nationwide.

Lowes is responsible for ~8 Flock cameras in and out of my local shopping center.

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I think that the only way is to stop shopping at places that do this, and to tell those stores that you're doing so.

You might get, in a somewhat politically homogeneous community, enough people to boycott one store to make a difference, though frankly that shop might have to already strike residents as objectionable for some other reason, like its owner being a nasty person or something. But it isn’t realistic to expect people to boycott a whole shopping center. That’s why political organizing to enact regulation that can side-step consumer choice, is a (slightly) more realistic option.

smashy smashy.

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