Shit The FBI Says...

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https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/4o8q8s/fbi_says_utility_pole_surveillance_cam_locations/
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/fbi-says-utility-pole-surveillance-cam-locations-must-be-kept-secret/

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has successfully convinced a
federal judge to block the disclosure of where the bureau has attached
surveillance cams on Seattle utility poles.


https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/fbi-can-search-400-million-face-recognition-photos

Today the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) finally
published its exhaustive report on the FBI’s face recognition
capabilities. The takeaway: FBI has access to hundreds of millions
more photos than we ever thought. And the Bureau has been hiding this
fact from the public—in flagrant violation of federal law and agency
policy—for years.


https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/industry-dominated-group-writes-drone-privacy-best-practices-dont-deserve-name

An industry-dominated “multistakeholder process” convened by the
Commerce Department recently produced a set of voluntary privacy “best
practices” for commercial drones that are so riddled with exceptions
and vague language that companies could engage in all sorts of
practices that would violate the public's privacy expectations, while
still claiming to comply with these guidelines.